{"id":113465,"date":"2018-06-13T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=113465"},"modified":"2018-06-13T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:10:09","slug":"strike-in-san-francisco-de-macoris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/13\/strike-in-san-francisco-de-macoris-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike in San Francisco de Macoris"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113494\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113494\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Strike-at-SFM-El-Nuevo-Diario-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Nuevo Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A strike in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds that began yesterday, Tuesday 12 June 2018, has paralyzed businesses, closed schools and stopped transport.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the 48-hour strike, which was called by the Popular Front (Falpo), demand the completion of several public works and justice in the case of the death of one of their officials, Vladimir Lantigua Baldera.<\/p>\n<p>Strikers are also asking for the dismissal of the local prosecutor, Regis Victorio Reyes, who they accuse of protecting those responsible for the death of Lantigua Baldera in August last year, who died from a gunshot wound during a protest.<\/p>\n<p>They are also demanding the construction of a hospital, a cultural plaza and the R\u00edo San Juan-San Francisco road.<\/p>\n<p>Falpo have complained about what they see to be the disproportionate numbers of military and police at the demonstrations for what they say is a peaceful protest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/paralizan-actividades-en-san-francisco-macoris-en-reclamo-de-obras-y-justicia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strike in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds that began yesterday, Tuesday 12 June 2018, has paralyzed businesses, closed schools and stopped transport. Leaders of the 48-hour strike, which was called by the Popular Front (Falpo), demand the completion of several public works and justice in the case of the death of one of their officials, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/13\/strike-in-san-francisco-de-macoris-2\/\" 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\/113465"}],"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=113465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}