Partido Ortodoxo

The Partido Ortodoxo was a Cuban political party, otherwise known as the Partido del Pueblo Cubano. It was founded in 1947 by Eduardo Chibás in response to perceived government corruption and lack of reform. Its primary aims were the establishment of a distinct national identity, economic independence and the implementation of social reforms.

In the 1948 general elections Chibás came third in the presidential election, whilst the party won four seats in the House of Representatives. In the 1950 mid-term elections they won nine. Chibás' cousin, Roberto Agramonte, was the favorite to win the 1952 election (for the Orthodoxos) but Fulgencio Batista staged a coup before the winner was determined.

Fidel Castro was an active member of the Ortodoxo Party in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He intended to run as an Ortodoxo Party candidate for the Cuban parliament prior to the coup by Batista.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Jules Robert Benjamin (1990), The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691025360, ISBN 0691025363, http://books.google.com/?id=tjXDKPVUoy0C&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=%22Partido+Ortodoxo%22 
2. ^ Castro biography