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Patriotic Union (Colombia)
Political party in Colombia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patriotic Union or UP (in Spanish: Unión Patriótica) is a leftist, Colombian political party, founded by the FARC[1] and the Colombian Communist Party in 1985, as part of the peace negotiations that the guerrillas held with the Conservative Belisario Betancur administration.
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President | Aída Avella |
Founded | May 28, 1985 (1985-05-28) |
Headquarters | Bogotá |
Youth wing | Union of Patriotic Youth |
Ideology | Post-Marxism Socialism Democratic socialism Social democracy Bolivarianism Left-wing nationalism |
Political position | Left-wing |
National affiliation | List of Decency [es] (2017–2018) Historic Pact for Colombia (2021–) |
Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum |
Colours | Yellow, Green |
Chamber of Representatives | 1 / 188 |
Senate | 4 / 108 |
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The party was subject to political violence from drug lords, paramilitaries and security forces agents during the mid-1980s, leading to its eventual decline, virtual disappearance, and extermination. The Colombian justice system counts 5,733 murdered militants of the Patriotic Union.[2] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights counts more than 8,000 activists murdered and many more disappeared, tortured or displaced.[3]
In September 2002, new electoral laws stripped the UP of formal and legal representative status as a political party, but the Council of State of Colombia gave this status back in July 2013, facilitating its members to again run for office.[4]