For the 2007/08 season, Guaros de Lara bought the former outstanding Colombian World Cup goal-keeper René Higuita, who returned to play football at the age of 41.
Aquiles David Ocanto Querales (born November, 1988 in Barquisimeto) is a Venezuelan footballer Striker who currently plays for Deportivo Lara.
Founded in 1942 and based in Barquisimeto, the Cardenales have won four domestic titles, the most recent in 2001.
She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).