The_History_Of_Colombian_Government

The History Of Colombian Government The first group of Spanish that came to Columbia consisted of conquistadors, administrators, and Roman Catholic clergy. The clergy wanted to "save the souls" of the native Indians, and in the process they acquired land and wealth for the church. The native Indians were taken as slaves in their own land and forced to work for the crown of Spain. Eventually the slaves revolted and drove the Spanish conquistadors out of the colony. The Republic of Colombia or (Columbia) gained independence from Spain on July 20 1819. The country then established traditions of civilian government. Columbia has regular free elections and a republic type government where the executive branch dominates government structure. Currently, Columbia has seven well known political parties including the Liberal Party or PL, Conservative Party or PC; New Democratic Force or NDF; Democratic Alliance M-19 which is a coalition of small leftist parties and dissident liberals and conservatives. The Patriotic Union or UP is a legal political party formed by Revolutionary Armed Forces columbia, church, percent, party, government, spain, country, colombia, clergy, catholic, spanish, slaves, roman, republic, political, parties, over, native, land, indians, independence, freedom, democratic, conservative, conquistadors, because, writing, work, wealth, wanted, upper-middle-class, upper-class, union, type, traditions, traditionally