Istwa Nou

Rafael Trujillo held that the Dominican Republic could never be safe unless it controlled the whole island, and he interfered in Port-au-Prince repeatedly. His secret police chief, Anselmo Paulino, had a Haitian wife and had served as minister in Haiti. When Trujillo proposed sending him back in 1946, Estime refused, and the refusal became a personal grievance. By 1949 Trujillo was broadcasting attacks over La Voz Dominicana, accusing Estime of crimes and of keeping a mistress and four children in Paris, and Port-au-Prince radio answered in the same register. More than insults crossed the border. A 1950 investigation confirmed that Trujillo supplied money and weapons for what became known as the Dupuy-Roland plot. Teams were to enter Port-au-Prince, kill Colonel Magloire, the police chief Major Prosper and the president, set the city alight, and meet an invasion column that Astrel Roland, a former Garde colonel living in Ciudad Trujillo, would lead across the Cul-de-Sac from Jimani. On 26 December 1949 the Dominican ambassador in Port-au-Prince gave the whole plan to Estime's foreign minister.