The Communist Party of Cuba was founded in 1917.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
No source gives 1917 as the founding year. The Communist Party of Cuba is dated to 3 October 1965 by Reuters, Wikipedia, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the sld.cu institutional page, and its predecessor, the first Cuban Communist Party, is dated to 1925 in several sources.
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… So the Schaeinbram brothers um landed in Cuba instead of the instead of the UN. And help form the Communist Party of Cuba immediately. I don't know how. They didn't even speak Spanish. It's like there's chunks missing here, that these guys can do this. The party even had a Jewish section, brand new party in Cuba in 1914 or in 1917, with a Jewish section. Um, they didn't know Spanish, but somehow Jews had a strong presence in the PCO, the Communist Party of Cuba. Four of the party's 13 members founding members were Jewish. I think it's more than that. Um, there were a few Chinese there, too. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Reuters' 2018 factbox states the PCC was established in 1965 through the amalgamation of revolutionary groups under Fidel Castro.[1]
Contradicts. Wikipedia and the sld.cu institutional page both date the Communist Party of Cuba's founding to 3 October 1965, as the successor to the ORI/PURSC.[2][3]
Contradicts. Britannica and Cuban government sources date the earlier Cuban Communist Party to 1925 (16 August 1925), which is still not 1917.[4][5][6]
Contradicts. Infoplease's timeline lists 1925 for the Cuban Communist Party's establishment and 1965 for its renaming as the Communist Party of Cuba.[7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 6 not rated
- 1Factbox - Cuba's one-party socialist system among last in worldreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Communist Party of Cuba - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC)instituciones.sld.cu · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Communist Party of Cuba | History, Ideology & Structurebritannica.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5First communist party in Cuba turns 97misiones.cubaminrex.cu · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Cuba celebra hoy el aniversario 98 de la fundación de su primer Partido Comunista.minjus.gob.cu · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7Timeline of Key Events in Cuban Historyinfoplease.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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