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About Raúl Chibás
- Raúl Chibás Ribas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.
- Born in Santiago de Cuba, Chibás spent his childhood in Havana and attended the University of Havana.
- His older brother, Eduardo, founded and led the Orthodox Party (also known as the Cuban People's Party) in 1947.
- After Eduardo committed suicide in 1951, Raúl took over as party leader. Chibás vehemently opposed the rule of Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, and he supported the anti-Batista struggle of Fidel Castro.
- In July 1957, he signed the Sierra Manifesto, which proclaimed unity of the disparate anti-Batista groups.
- He served various positions for Castro's government after the revolution, including railroad commissioner and trial judge.
- He was a Major of the Cuban Army in 1960 when he decided to defect to the United States via a motor boat to Miami.
- Chibás felt that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the revolution. Chibás became an active anti-Castro activist in the United States.
- In 1960, he joined a group of former Castro aides in issuing a joint 3500-word manifesto calling for the overthrow of the Cuban leader.
- He found employment teaching Spanish at a school in New York City.
- After 20 years of living in America, Chibás moved to Caracas, Venezuela to join two of his children.
- In 1991, having spent 10 years in Venezuela, he moved to Miami, where he spent the rest of his life.
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