Diario las Américas

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maintained relative, if not adequate neutrality. But is is a

fact that public order is being maintained by the Armed

Forces, while political leaders are engaged in inflamed

debate, without having been able to reach an agreement

to bring back the country to constitutional normalcy.

The situation confronting the Haitian people is dan

gerous in extreme, because, at any moment, under the

circumstances, the Army may, although without authority,

constitute itself in master of the situation, putting aside

the political values of the country, and organizing a Govern

ment composed by its own members, without government

Institutions corresponding the supremacy of Civil Power.

The leaders of the Haitian political parties should

patriotically medidate, as a duty, about the need of creating

the necessary climate for the re-establishment of a constitu

tional government, of positive popular making, which will

enjoy public respect and direct the administrative and

poltical life of the nation toward goals of progress and liberty

When the essence of dignity of the Republic is in

danger, all the citizens have the civic, more than political,

obligation of making an effort of patriotic unity to avoid

that the country sucumbs amid party ambitions first and

lack of democracy later. The news coming out of Port

au-Prince, regarding the prolongued political crisis, seem

to indicate that the Haitians citizens have come to the

decisive moment of confronting that obligations to save the

Fatherland.

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Diario las Américas. (1957). Miami, Fla.;Miami Springs, Fla., 1957-05-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82001257/1957-05-01/ed-1/?sp=10

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Diario las Américas, 1957-05-01.