[5] It was founded as a parliamentary group by defectors from the then governing National Unity of Hope party of President Álvaro Colom in 2008.

At the end of the 2007-2011 legislature, the Independent Renewed Democratic Liberty parliamentary bloc included 25 out of the 158 deputies in the Congress of the Republic,[6] where it formed a parliamentary alliance with the conservative Grand National Alliance (GANA).

According to Insight Crime, the Renewed Democratic Liberty has strong ties with groups of drug traffickers.

[8] In the September 11, 2011 Legislative Election, LIDER won 8.9% of the vote and 14 seats in Congress.

Presidential Candidate Manuel Baldizón placed second in the Presidential Race with 23.2% of the votes (1,038,287 votes), eventually losing in the November 6 run-off to conservative Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party (PP).