Mexican synarchism
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National Synarchist Union
Unión Nacional Sinarquista |
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| Founded | May 23, 1937 |
| Headquarters | León, Guanajuato |
| Newspaper | El Sinarquista |
| Youth wing | Juventudes Sinarquistas |
| Ideology |
Right-wing nationalism National Socialism Anti-communism National syndicalism Clerical fascism Anti-semitism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colors | Green, White and Red |
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http://unionnacionalsinarquista.org/ http://movimiento-sinarquista.blogspot.com |
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The National Synarchist Union (Spanish: Unión Nacional Sinarquista) is a Mexican political organization. It was historically a movement of the Roman Catholic extreme right, in some ways akin to clerical fascism and falangism, implacably opposed to the left wing and secularist policies of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its predecessors that governed Mexico from 1929 to 2000 and since 2012.
The UNS was founded in May 1937, during the leftist administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40), by a group of Catholic political activists led by José Antonio Urquiza, who was murdered in April 1938. It was a revival of the Catholic reaction that drove the Cristero War (that ended in 1929), and its core was centered in the Bajío rural bourgeoisie and professional lower middle-class, where Catholicism was very strong. The group published the "Sinarquista Manifesto," opposing the policies of the government of President Lázaro Cárdenas. "It is absolutely necessary that an organization composed of true patriots exists," the Manifesto declared, "an organization which works for the restoration of the fundamental rights of each citizen and the salvation of the Motherland. As opposed to the utopians who dream of a society without governors and laws, Synarchism supports a society governed by a legitimate authority, emanating from the free democratic activity of the people, that truly guarantees the social order within all find true happiness." The group's date of formation, 23 May, was celebrated annually in León, Guanajuato by the membership.
The UNS was led by Salvador Abascal, a hard-liner, from 1940 to 1941 when he stood down in order to set up a synarchist commune in Baja California with the more moderate Manuel Torres Bueno becoming leader. The group was fond of large scale publicity stunts, such as the "takeovers" they launched in Guadalajara, Jalisco and Morelia in 1941. These temporary affairs amounted to little more than symbolic gestures but nonetheless helped to demonstrate the support the UNS enjoyed amongst the peasantry of the Western states.
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