{"id":120499,"date":"2018-12-20T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120499"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:54:40","slug":"congress-creates-a-new-province-santiago-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/congress-creates-a-new-province-santiago-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress creates a new province: Santiago West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"677\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-Santiago-Oeste-Listin-Diario.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-Santiago-Oeste-Listin-Diario.png 677w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Senate-Santiago-Oeste-Listin-Diario-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, 19 December 2018, the Senate passed the bill that divides the province of Santiago into two. There now will be the province of Santiago and the province of Santiago Oeste in the area of Cienfuegos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the third time that legislator Altagracia Mercedes Gonz\u00e1lez of the Chamber of Deputies (PLD-Santiago) had presented the bill for the split. On this occasion, after the bill first passed in the Chamber of Deputies, it moved to the Senate, where it received sufficient support from PLD senators that are majority to pass. The ruling PLD party is also majority in the Chamber of Deputies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since the bill had first been presented by Gonzalez in 2015, it had met with the opposition of the business community and development associations in Santiago. These argued the province has little to gain from the division and lots to loose. The businessmen say the division violates the Santiago Strategic Plan 2020 and observe that the only beneficiaries will be politicians in time for the 2020 general elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the entities that have opposed the splitting of the province in two are: <br>\nthe Asociaci\u00f3n de Industriales de la Regi\u00f3n Norte (AIREN), the C\u00e1mara de Comercio y Producci\u00f3n de Santiago, the Corporaci\u00f3n de Zona Franca Industrial that operates the largest duty free manufacturing zone, the Consejo para el Desarrollo Estrat\u00e9gico de Santiago, the Asociaci\u00f3n para el Desarrollo de la provincia (APEDI), the Asociaci\u00f3n de Comerciantes \u00e9 Industriales de Santiago (ACIS), the Asociaci\u00f3n de Empresas de Zonas Francas de Santiago and the Consejo para el Desarrollo Estrat\u00e9gico de Santiago (CDES). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill now moves on to the Presidency for signing and enactment into law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/12\/19\/546409\/ley-crea-la-provincia-santiago-oeste\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 December 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 19 December 2018, the Senate passed the bill that divides the province of Santiago into two. There now will be the province of Santiago and the province of Santiago Oeste in the area of Cienfuegos. This was the third time that legislator Altagracia Mercedes Gonz\u00e1lez of the Chamber of Deputies (PLD-Santiago) had presented &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/20\/congress-creates-a-new-province-santiago-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120499"}],"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=120499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120543,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120499\/revisions\/120543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}