Legacy
The Flores Department was named after Venancio Flores by a later Colorado Party (Uruguay) President of Uruguay, Máximo Santos.
More broadly, his period of office continued a tendency already present among at least some Colorado Party (Uruguay) Presidents but surviving virtually to contemporary times, for the national leadership under that party to be nominally liberal in doctrine but actually highly authoritarian. In this sense, Flores was definitely in the 'Riverista' mold, after Fructuoso Rivera, rather than in what would much later be referred to as a 'Batllista', after the liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez.
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