Liberal Union (Uruguay)

The Liberal Union (Spanish: Unión Liberal) was a short-lived Uruguayan political party established in 1855, as a manifestation of the current of opinion known as fusion politics. Andrés Lamas was one of its leading theoretical exponents.[1]

The so-called “doctors” sought to pacify the territory and leave behind the evils caused by the continuous internal conflicts that reached their peak in the Uruguayan Civil War (1843–1851). They considered caudillismo and the economic exploitation of the countryside to be the causes of the Republic's ills and advocated the creation of a new political party that would eliminate the old warring factions.[2] This is how the Liberal Union was born, considered a “party of ideas,” which sought to replace the traditional parties with a single great current of thought.[3]

References

  1. ^ González, Ariosto D. (1937). "El manifiesto de Lamas en 1855". Legislative Library of Uruguay (in Spanish). Montevideo: El Siglo Ilustrado. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  2. ^ "La Unión, cuando Oribe y Flores suscribieron un pacto". LR21.com.uy (in Spanish). 11 November 2004. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  3. ^ Castiglia Barzelli, Alfonso (2004). "Tesis de licenciatura en ciencia política - Principismo y partidos políticos en el Uruguay: un estudio de las fracciones y partidos "doctorales" en el siglo XIX" (PDF). Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Ciencia Política. Retrieved 25 November 2025.


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