Eduardo Chibás
Eduardo " Eddy" René Chibás Ribas (born 26 August 1907 in Santiago de Cuba, † August 16, 1951 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban writer and politician. He founded the Partido del Pueblo Cubano 1947 ( Ortodoxos ) from which the Cuban revolutionary movement M -26- 7 in the later President Fidel Castro ( also a member of the Orthodox Party) was formed.
Life
Chibás came as the son of Eduardo Guerra and Gloria Ribas Chibás Agramonte from the upper class of the city of Santiago de Cuba. There he attended the Jesuit Colegio Dolores, before he completed his last high school year at the Jesuit Colegio Belén also out of Havana, the most prestigious elite school in the country. At 17 he entered the University of Havana to study law and became involved in a row in the student political movement. He was considered one of the few non-corrupt politicians and represented a program of economic and social change in favor of a claim against the dominance of U.S. corporations national economic policy and the fight against corruption.
1926 Chibás arrested several times because of his protest against the prosecution of the student leader and founder of the Communist Party of Cuba Julio Antonio Mella for terrorism. 1927 Chibás co-founder of the Directorio Estudiantil Universitario (DEU), the leading force in the fight against the dictator Gerardo Machado. The end of 1932 he went temporarily into exile. In 1933 he was a member of the revolutionary government of Ramón Grau San Martín, which had been formed after the popular overthrow of Machado, but was in turn deposed after only one hundred days of the military under Fulgencio Batista. Between 1935 and 1937 he was involved in the organization Izquierda Revolucionaria ( " Revolutionary Left ").
Since 1938, he belonged to the Partido Revolucionario Cubano ( Auténticos ) (PRC -A ) for which he participated as a member of the Constituent Assembly in the drafting of the Constitution of 1940. Mid-1940s, he was one of the leaders of the PRC- A and 1947 was considered as a possible candidate of the party for the succession of the reigning president since 1944 again Grau, but decided to be a candidate for Carlos Prio. Chibás led to the wing of the party, who advocated a greater emphasis on social reforms. Chibás took in 1947 break with the Auténticos Partido del Pueblo and founded the Cubano ( Ortodoxos ), which occurred in particular as anti-corruption party with high moral. With her he came in 1948 with the motto vergüenza contra Dinero ( honor instead of money ) as a presidential candidate on, landed behind the Carlos Prio finally elected by a wide margin on the third. In the elections of 1950, he won a Senate seat.
Chibás was considered a promising candidate for the planned for June 1952 elections in which he prepared to succeed PRIOS in the presidency, whose corruption and ties to the Mafia he denounced. Chibás but also represented a strictly anti-Communist course against the Partido Socialista Popular.
After Chibás had numerous politicians accused of wrongdoing and corruption, and his accusations always busy, he announced in the summer of 1951, provide solid evidence for its specific allegations of corruption against the incumbent Minister of Education. This had the allegations referred to as baseless and asked Chibás to retract his allegations. Thus Chibás learned on August 5, 1951, enormous attention for his already popular radio program La Hora Dominical (engl. " The Sunday Hour" ), which he chaired from 1944 Sundays at prime time from 20 clock on the nationwide station CMQ. Instead this evidence to deliver he spoke, however, about the government corruption in general, warned of a possible coup of Batista and called the Cuban public to take action on, this was his last wake-up call. He had, however, already reached the end of its transmission time and the microphones were turned off already, as he inflicted with a firearm brought serious injuries. He succumbed to his injuries eleven days later, on 16 August 1951. He was born with participation of hundreds of thousands of Cubans to the grave.
The Orthodox party founded by him lost with him their charismatic leader and broke after the military coup of Fulgencio Batista in March 1952 gradually in different wings apart. Some of the supporters and members of the party, including Eddy Chibás 's younger brother Raul, and later the 26th of July Movement joined in, which helped in the wake of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro to power in Cuba.