{"id":125263,"date":"2019-04-16T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125263"},"modified":"2019-04-16T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:46:30","slug":"archbishop-of-santo-domingo-warns-of-concentration-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/archbishop-of-santo-domingo-warns-of-concentration-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Santo Domingo warns of concentration of power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cardinal-Ozoria-Huchi-Lora.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125309\" width=\"600\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cardinal-Ozoria-Huchi-Lora.png 594w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cardinal-Ozoria-Huchi-Lora-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Catholic Church Archbishop of Santo Domingo Francisco Ozoria went public with his concern about the lack of independence amongst the branches of government. He warned the country is headed to a dictatorship if people don\u2019t wake up and change. \u201cWe have a structure in government that is not respecting that the branches of government be independent, and they are not,\u201d he stated. <br> \u201cIt is clear that there is no independence in the powers of the state, then we fall into something as strong as into a dictatorship; if we do not wake up, if we do not change, we go there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the comments in an interview with Huchi Lora and Amelia Deschamps for the El D\u00eda morning TV news analysis show on Telesistema, Channel 11. <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Palm Sunday sermon, Archbishop Ozoria and Santiago archbishop Freddy Bret\u00f3n Mart\u00ednez had called for the Dominican population to reflect during Easter on the ambitions of power in government, femicides and citizen safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/ozoria-advierte-rd-marcha-a-dictadura\/\">El&nbsp;Nacional<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vEls-mwAJGo\">Huchi&nbsp;Lora&nbsp;+&nbsp;El&nbsp;Dia<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/video-no-hay-respeto-de-los-poderes-del-estado-podemos-caer-en-una-dictadura-advierte-monsenor-francisco-ozoria-ictadura\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Catholic Church Archbishop of Santo Domingo Francisco Ozoria went public with his concern about the lack of independence amongst the branches of government. He warned the country is headed to a dictatorship if people don\u2019t wake up and change. \u201cWe have a structure in government that is not respecting that the branches of government &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/archbishop-of-santo-domingo-warns-of-concentration-of-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125263"}],"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=125263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125310,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125263\/revisions\/125310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}