Patriotic Union (Colombia)

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Patriotic Union Unión Patriótica
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
Party flag
Website
partido-up.org
Politics of Colombia Political parties Elections

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.

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]