Diario las Américas

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j Inter-American Press Association’s

Freedom of the Press Committee,

HEMISPHERIC EVENTS

Latin America n News in Brief

Hiatian Diplomat

Shot to Death by

Embassy Colleague

WASHINGTON, (UP). The

first secretary of the Haitian em

bassy today shot and killed the

embassy’s minister counsellor. The

secretary apparently blamed the

minister for orders issued recent

ly for him to return to Haiti.

The victim was Samuel de

Vieux, 50, No. 2 man at the em

bassy. He was dead on arrival at

the Washington Hospital Center.

There were gunshot wounds in

his neck and chest.

Police held Andre Toussaint,

about 38, the first secretary, for

questioning and filed an imme

diate report to the State Depart

ment. He was married last Satur

day to an American girl.

Police expected difficulty in in

vestigating the case because the

embassy is “foreign territory” and

they could be ordered out at any

time

the nation against “plotters who

destroy with their exotic ideolo

gies”, and who try to undermine

the moral forces of the nation.

Great aplause broke out when

he maintained that “the time has

come that these advocates of doc

trines opposed to everything that

Brazil really is are told' that we

are well informed of their activi

ties”.

The President added that no

body is more active in the pro

motion of development of Brazil

ian material wealth, “but this must

be done within the framework of

our own national personality, our

Christian beliefs and not against

them”.

He affirmed that democracy in

sures complete freedom for the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Diario las Américas. (1958). Miami, Fla.;Miami Springs, Fla., 1958-04-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82001257/1958-04-15/ed-1/?sp=10

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Diario las Américas, 1958-04-15.