National Leftist Revolutionary Union

Not to be confused with Revolutionary Left Union.

The National Leftist Revolutionary Union (Spanish: Unión Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria) was a radical political party that operated in Colombia in the early 1930s.

National Leftist Revolutionary Union Unión Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria
Abbreviation	UNIR
President	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Founded	1933
Dissolved	1935
Split from	Liberal Party
Merged into	Liberal Party
Ideology	Left-wing nationalism Left-wing populism Democratic socialism Christian socialism Anti-imperialism
Political position	Left-wing
Religion	Catholicism
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History

The movement was founded in 1933 by populist leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán after he broke with the Liberal Party. In 1935, Gaitan decided to rejoin the Liberals, and disbanded the National Leftist Revolutionary Union in the same year.^[1]