Progressive Liberal Party (Guatemala)

{{Short description|Political party in Guatemala}}

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{{Infobox political party

| name = Progressive Liberal Party

| native_name = Partido Liberal Progresista

| logo =

| colorcode = {{party color|Progressive Liberal Party (Guatemala)}}

| leader = Jorge Ubico Castañeda (1922–1944)
Federico Ponce Vaides (1944)

| founded = 1922

| registered =

| legalised = 1925

| dissolved = 1944

| banned =

| merger =

| split = Liberal Party

| predecessor =

| merged =

| successor =

| headquarters = Guatemala City

| newspaper =

| ideology = Ubicoism
Economic liberalism{{cite web|url=http://iihaa.usac.edu.gt/archivohemerografico/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/26_estudios_ago_1995_valladares.pdf|title=EL P ARllDO LIBERAL Y OTRAS ·FUERZAS POLÍTICAS 1871-1944|author=Mayra Valladares de Ruiz|access-date=July 24, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/mas-inteligencia-civil-y-menos-populismo|title=Más inteligencia civil y menos populismo|author=Consejo Editorial de Plaza Pública|access-date=July 24, 2020}}
Liberalism[https://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/mas-inteligencia-civil-y-menos-populismo Más inteligencia civil y menos populismo]
Nationalism
Anti-communism{{cite web|url=http://www.relato.gt/historia-del-dia/ubico-le-debe-algo-la-historia|title=Ubico, ¿Le debe algo la Historia?|access-date=July 24, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.prensalibre.com/hemeroteca/jorge-ubico-nace-en-1878/|title=1878: nace el ex presidente Jorge Ubico|access-date=July 24, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.prensalibre.com/hemeroteca/guatemala-termina-la-guerra-con-alemania/|title=1956: Guatemala termina la guerra con Alemania|access-date=July 24, 2020}}
Fascismhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150122071748/http://servicios.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/archivo/revistad/2007/noviembre07/181107/historia.shtml
Federalism

| position = Right-wing to far-right

| country = Guatemala

}}

The Progressive Liberal Party was a political party in Guatemala.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch17-2.htm|title=Central America in the 1930s|website=www.fsmitha.com|access-date=2019-12-15}} It had a nationalistic and liberal ideology. It was founded in 1922, and dissolved in 1944.

The party, led by Jorge Ubico won the 1931 general election unopposed.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1215811.stm|title=Timeline: Guatemala|date=2012-07-03|access-date=2019-12-15|language=en-GB}}{{Cite book|title=Elections in the Americas : a data handbook|others=Nohlen, Dieter.|year=2005 |isbn=0-19-925358-7|location=New York|oclc=58051010}}