{"id":122231,"date":"2019-02-06T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=122231"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:35:47","slug":"who-sponsors-the-big-capos-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/06\/who-sponsors-the-big-capos-in-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Who sponsors the big capos in the Dominican Republic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luis-Abinader-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122241\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><figcaption>Luis Abinader \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PRM presidential pre-candidate Luis Abinader, in a campaign event on 5 February 2019, asked the question that is in the minds of many Dominicans. He said the government needs to investigate who are the godfathers of the capos that have been arrested in the Dominican Republic where they had made significant investments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not true that they are going to come here without a godfather. That has to be investigated, how they came,\u201d he said. He said drug trafficking prevention mechanisms need to be strengthened together with other countries due to the complexity of the drug trafficking problem. \u201cIf they did not have godfathers to protect them, then those capos would not be in the country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke after receiving the backing of a group of academics, including Nino Felix, former candidate to rector of the state university UASD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/abinader-pide-al-gobierno-investigar-padrinos-de-capos-KB12028525\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/02\/06\/552364\/abinader-recibe-apoyo-de-grupo-universitario\">Listin&nbsp;Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRM presidential pre-candidate Luis Abinader, in a campaign event on 5 February 2019, asked the question that is in the minds of many Dominicans. He said the government needs to investigate who are the godfathers of the capos that have been arrested in the Dominican Republic where they had made significant investments. \u201cIt is not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/06\/who-sponsors-the-big-capos-in-the-dominican-republic\/\" 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":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122231"}],"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=122231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122242,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122231\/revisions\/122242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}