political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
in
Cuba
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, led by Juan Gualberto Gómez.Infos at habanaelegante.com /ref> It was formed around 1900, after splits in the Republican parties in
Havana
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and
Las Villas
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Together with the Sierra de Cazorla and Sierra de Segura ...
. The split was caused by the opposition of the Republican parties to Gualberto Gómez's radical position against the
Platt Amendment
The Platt Amendment was a piece of United States legislation enacted as part of the Army Appropriations Act of 1901 that defined the relationship between the United States and Cuba following the Spanish–American War.Averhoff Purón, Mario. ''Los primeros partidos políticos''. La Habana: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1971. p. 64
Overview
The party was able to build up an organizational network in different provinces of the island. In Havana, its members included Julián Betancourt, Alberto Barreras, E. García Enseñat y Asbert. In Oriente, it was joined by Joaquín Castillo Duany (who had been the leader of the Democratic Federal Republican Party of Santiago de Cuba) and Rafael Mandulay. In Matanzas, members included personalities such as García Pola, Manuel Sobrado and Juan Antonia Garmendia.
Ahead of the 1901 presidential elections, the party was one of the main forces campaigning for the candidature of
Bartolomé Masó
Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez (21 December 1830 in Yara – 14 June 1907 in Manzanillo) was a Cuban politician and military patriot for Cuban independence from the colonial power of Spain, and later President of the '' República en ...