{"id":108322,"date":"2018-01-11T12:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=108322"},"modified":"2018-01-11T12:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:57:02","slug":"us-state-department-issues-recommendations-for-travel-to-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/11\/us-state-department-issues-recommendations-for-travel-to-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department issues recommendations for travel to DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108292\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108292\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Las-Americas-Airport-Diario-Libre-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On 10 January 2018, the US Department of State alerted US citizens to exercise increased caution when visiting the Dominican Republic, due to the increase in crime. The DR is now level 2 of four levels of recommendation for travelers from the United States. Level one means \u201cnormal precautions\u201d for personal safety and level 2 calls for \u201cincreased safety precautions\u201d. Level 3 is a recommendation to reconsider travel and level 4 is a warning not to travel.<\/p>\n<p>For the Dominican Republic the US State Department recommendations are the following:<br \/>\nBe Aware of your surroundings.<br \/>\nDo not physically resist any robbery attempt.<br \/>\nDo not display signs of wealth, such as wearing expensive watches or jewelry.<br \/>\nThe US Embassy also recommends travelers to enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) in order to receive alerts and make it easier to locate US visitors in the DR in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>In its country information page, the US State Department alerts to violent crime, such as robbery, murder, and sexual assault, is common. The wide availability of weapons, the use and trade of illicit drugs, and a weak criminal justice system contribute.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/international-travel\/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages\/DominicanRepublic.html\" target=\"_blank\">US State Department<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/las-recomendaciones-de-seguridad-de-ee-uu-para-quienes-viajan-a-la-republica-dominicana-MD8948842\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11 January 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 January 2018, the US Department of State alerted US citizens to exercise increased caution when visiting the Dominican Republic, due to the increase in crime. The DR is now level 2 of four levels of recommendation for travelers from the United States. Level one means \u201cnormal precautions\u201d for personal safety and level 2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/11\/us-state-department-issues-recommendations-for-travel-to-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}