The purpose of the present paper is make public the main characteristics, stages and legal regulations that constitute landmarks in the historical course of the supervision process in the Bolivarian Educational System, so it becomes an important reference for the study and the research of the Venezuelan education in general and of the educational supervision process in particular. The carried out analysis shows that the supervision process has moved from the concept of autocratic inspection throughout the liberal inspection to democratic supervision. In the last years, the Bolivarian government has granted authority to the supervision service, with enough concepts and precisions that convert it in a permanent and indispensable activity for the improvement of the new educational system. The operated changes in the legal framework and official standards state the supervision as a political and strategic process in order to increase the quality of the Venezuelan education.