Diario las Américas

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was down last year from a high of

80,000 because o< political turmoil

Minister of Tourism Jean A. Ma

gluire predicted that tourism

can in time take first place in the

country’s economy, a position now

held by the coffee trade.

Haiti’s culture is a blend of Afri

can and French Haitians speak a

patois mixine 16th and 17th cen

tury Norman French West Indian,

English Spanish and African. Hai

tian art is vivid and primitive.

Every hotel obbj boasts at least

one huge mural by a native artist

and a display of canvases for sale.

HOTEL, PLANE PLANS

Parts of Pori au Prince seem

like bits of Paris transported to

the tropics. All of the hotels ex

cept two are private homes, some

of them mansions. Nearly all are

in the cool hills above the city.

__Six hours drive by car from ort

au Prince, or 40 minutes by plane,

on the north coast of Hait, is Cap

Haitien, whose surrounding plan

tations at one lime supplied half

of Europe with its sugar and co

coa. This is the site of the Citadelle

built by the salves of King Chris

tophe as a defense against Napo

leon. Here, too Columbus’s flag

ship the Santa Maria was wrecked

on Dee 24, 1492.

There are talks in progress be

tween the Haitian government and

an American syndicate looking to

at Cap Haitien and opening up

the building of a $10,000,000 hotel

this area for increased tourist use.

Also according to President Du

vaiier, plans are being discussed

for enlarging the Cap Haitien air

port to accommodate the Pan Ame

rican World Airways jet planes

when they come into use about a

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Diario las Américas. (1958). Miami, Fla.;Miami Springs, Fla., 1958-03-13. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82001257/1958-03-13/ed-1/?sp=10

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Diario las Américas, 1958-03-13.