Movimiento Sinarquista
Movimiento Sinarquista
The Movimiento Sinarquista (synarchist movement) was a popular, nationalist, Catholic movement that began in May 1937 in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. Its leading party, the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (National Synachist Union, or UNS), succeeded the National Catholic Party (1910–1913) and the Catholic organization La Base, and opposed the anticlerical principles and the social program of the government of President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940). The movement's founders and principal leaders were José Antonio Urquiza (?–1938), who had collaborated with the Phalange in the Spanish civil war, José Trueba Olivares, Manuel Zermeño, and Salvador Abascal (1910–2000). Its support came from peasants and the middle class of Mexico's west-central region of Bajío. It received recognition from the Anti-Communist Center, founded in 1936 by the Nazi sympathizer Helmut Oskar Schreiter, and had ties to the Mexican Revolutionary Action Party, the Social Democrat Party, the Mexican Nationalist Vanguard Party and anti-Communist, anti-Semitic, and pro-Franco organizations. The UNS began to decline in 1943 due to internal divisions, agreements between the state and the Catholic Church hierarchy, and the lack of an economic and political program.
See alsoCárdenas del Río, Lázaro; Mexico, Political Parties: National Action Party (PAN).
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