Ricardo Domínguez Urbano-Taylor

Ricardo Domínguez Urbano-Taylor (Caracas, Venezuela March 30, 1903- Caracas, Venezuela January 30, 1976)

Businessman, town planner and journalist. In 1952, he bought from Ángel Corao El Heraldo, a well-known newspaper in Caracas. In 1956, he launched a humoruous publication called "El Gavilán Colorao" in "Actualidades" with painter Luis Alfredo López Méndez and journalist Kotepa Delgado. Simultaneously, Domínguez engaged in the development of Caracas's east section where he helped design and finance the construction of residential areas such as La Castellana, Altamira, El Country Club alongside his lifelong friends and associates José Loreto Arismendi, Luis Roche and Werner Heuer Lares, something he unsuccessfully tried to do later on with Caricuao and which an agrarian reform decreed by President Rómulo Betancourt, who ironically had been an employee of Domínguez, prevented him from accomplishing.

He was the brother in law of Juan García Gruber.