This knowledge enabled him to become, at eighteen, the translator of international news in El Fonógrafo, which, by that time, reached newspapers in the original language of each country.

Aurora was also sister to Venezuelan lawyer Néstor Luis Pérez Luzardo, a minister in the Eleazar López Contreras cabinet.

"The previous despotic regimes", writes Pocaterra, "had respected that newspaper, whose material progress was a result of its enormous moral responsibility".

[4] When World War I began in 1914, Gómez favored the German Empire in the conflict while maintaining a veneer of neutrality against the allied community.

In 1917, Eduardo started a simultaneous edition of "El Fonógrafo" in Caracas, under the direction of his younger brother, Carlos López Bustamante.

[4] The newspapers's policy in favor of the Allies resulted in economic imbalance for "El Fonógrafo" because most of its advertisements, that came from Maracaibo German import and trading firms, began to be withdrawn.

The headquarters of "El Fonógrafo" in Caracas and Maracaibo were closed permanently, ending with it, writes José R. Pocaterra, "the efforts of two generations ... and 38 years of the great Zulia newspaper."

[5][6] López Bustamante spent five years in the castle on the island of San Carlos del Zulia, shackled and bolted by the feet and living in subhuman conditions.

"In this respect", writes Nava, "the performance of Eduardo López Bustamante is always deeply remembered and appreciated by the people of Zulia."

[11] The remains of Eduardo López Bustamante rest next to those of his wife, in the pantheon of the Pérez Luzardo family of Cemetery The Square Luxburg-Carolath in the city of Maracaibo.