Ortodoxo+(Party)

A Cuban political party, otherwise known as the //Partido del Pueblo Cubano//, that was founded in 1947 by Eduardo Chibás in response to 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. Fidel Castro was an active member of the Orthodoxo Party in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He intended to run as an Orthodoxo Party candidate for the Cuban parliament prior to the 1952 coup d'etat by Fulgencio Batista.