 He ignored Cajigal, who by 1814 was captain general, even when they were campaigning together, and appointed political and military commanders of his own choosing.Further still from his mind was the Spanish Constitution of 1812, which should have been in effect in Venezuela during this time.Most striking to his contemporaries, however, was that he allowed his "llanero" soldiers to engage in a class and race war against the landed and urban classes of Venezuela, fulfilling the latters' fear, since 1810, that the revolution could devolve into another Haitian Revolution.