page_title: Colombian Conservative Party
section_title: Conservative Hegemony
hierarchical_section_title: Colombian Conservative Party / History / Conservative Hegemony
caption_attribution_description: Laureano Gómez, President of Colombia in 1950-1953
context_page_description: The Colombian Conservative Party is a conservative political party in Colombia. The party was formally established in 1849 by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and José Eusebio Caro.
  The Conservative party along with the Colombian Liberal Party dominated the Colombian political scene from the end of the 19th century until 2002, in bipartisan political hegemony. In the mid-20th century, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party established the "National Front" after deposing President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and shared by turns the presidential terms for 16 years.
  Currently, the Conservative Party is the second largest political force in the congress. It was part of the coalition of Juan Manuel Santos from 2010 to 2014 and supported the conservative government of Álvaro Uribe from 2002 to 2010.
context_section_description: Following the events of the Regeneration, the Conservative Party kept the government of Colombia until 1930. During this period the country lost Panama to the United States. The overt partisanship and the use of the state power exacerbated old tensions which would ultimately lead from small scale conflicts like the war of 1895 to historical periods such as "La Violence". Two notable violent episodes occurred in this period: the Thousand Days' War and the Banana massacre. During the Hegemony, the Central Bank (later the Bank of the Republic) and continued to improve in the rail transport system that now crossed the country. However the emergent working classes felt irritated with the consecutive conservative governments and began supporting the Liberal Party, winning the presidency with Enrique Olaya Herrera in 1930.
caption: Laureano Gómez is considered the most radical conservative president in Colombian history.
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