Harvard Graduate Suspect in Panamanian President's Death

Dr. Arnulfo Arias, M.D. '25, prominent suspect in connection with last Sunday's assassination of Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon, is the second Harvard graduate to have attempted a Central American revolution by violence. Pedro Albizu y Campos '16, Puerto Rican Nationalist, was an organizer of the shootings in the House of Representatives last March.

Arias was made President of Panama in 1949 by Remon, then head of the National Police and acknowledged political boss of the republic. The split between Arias and Remon occurred in 1951, when Arias suspended the constitution and Remon forced him from office, taking over the presidency in June, 1952.