[1][3] Villanueva died in 1975,[4] before Pedro León Zapata began work on Conductores de Venezuela.

His artwork was characteristically critical of the government, and he often depicted the everyday reality of life for regular Venezuelans.

[7] The mural is made of 45,000 stoneware tiles, each 20 x 20 cm, cooked at the Pienme plant by ceramist Ricardo Ceruzzi, using single-firing furnaces.

It is sometimes called Conductores del país and is described as an "open-air gallery" that gives residents of Caracas a "sense of belonging".

[11] Dr. Silvio Llanos de la Hoz commented on the mural, writing that it does not reflect the Synthesis of the Arts in the way the rest of the campus artworks do, and that its message did not have a Kandinsky influence but was more concerned with Venezuela's social present at the time.