Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténticos)

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The Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténticos) (Eng. "Cuban Revolutionary Party (The Authentic)") was a political party in Cuba , which played an important role in the politics of 1934–1952 and provided two presidents.

Surname

Ramón Grau San Martín
Carlos Prío (left) with Harry S. Truman in 1948

When the party was founded in 1934, the name was intended to refer to the José Martis revolutionary party . However, a revolutionary party in Cuba already existed, which is why an Auténticos was added to the party name to distinguish it . It is also known colloquially as Partido Auténtico , the most common abbreviation is PRC (A).

prehistory

On August 12, 1933, the long-time dictator Gerardo Machado was overthrown by a general strike and replaced by an interim government. But on September 4, 1933, Fulgencio Batista launched the so-called " Uprising of the NCOs " against the interim government. Ramón Grau San Martín was installed as president, but was overthrown by Batista on January 14, 1934. In the following years Batista used various presidents as puppets until he finally took over the office of president himself from 1940.

history

In January 1934, Ramón Grau , Eduardo Chibás and Carlos Prío founded the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténticos) together with other leaders of the mostly student-supported popular uprising against dictator Gerardo Machado of 1933. The central themes of the party were the realization of full state independence and the implementation of social reforms in the interests of the economically disadvantaged sections of the Cuban population.

On October 10, 1944, Grau, the candidate of the Auténticos, won the presidential election to succeed Batista , who then went into exile. Due to the corruption of the government, many Cubans soon turned away from the party. For the same reason Eduardo Chibás left the party in 1947 and founded the Partido del Pueblo Cubano (Ortodoxos) with which he ran against Carlos Prío, the presidential candidate of the Auténticos in 1948. In the October 10 election, however, the Auténticos won again and Prío became president. However, the ongoing corruption led to the party losing more and more supporters, so that in the 1952 election a victory of the Ortodoxos, who denounced the corruption of the government, was considered likely. However, it was never held because Batista, who had returned to the scene of Cuban politics, put on a coup d'état against Prio on March 10, 1952, three months before the election.

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