The town of La Vega was originally the settlement of the slaves who tilled the land in the Hacienda Montalbán, created by the Spaniards as sugar cane mill.

Being populated in its beginnings by the Indians Toromaimas Then it was founded as Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá de la Vega on July 18, 1813, the then town remained without major variations until 1907 when Engineer Alberto Smith constituted the "Compañía Anónima Fábrica Nacional de Cementos", which in that epoch began with a production of 50 sacks per day.

Others are the children of the emigrants who arrived from the interior in past decades, to look for employment opportunities in the city and used La Vega to plant a ranch to house their families.

All this human flow, is concentrated on weekends in their respective areas, between the bustle of peddlers and music at full volume of the yiceros, housewives discuss the price of vegetables, how expensive is the tomato and the lack of water in the most remote neighborhoods of La Vega, also in that corner of Carmen, where the bakery and pastry shop "Bethany" is located, some Portuguese languors make efforts to communicate in an intricate Castilian mixed with words from their peninsula of origin, that almost nobody understands.

[3] Former prosecutor and director of the Public Ministry, Zair Mundaray, declared that the bodies of the deceased had a "ballistic pattern that demonstrates extrajudicial killings".