{"id":128479,"date":"2019-07-11T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=128479"},"modified":"2019-07-15T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T03:01:36","slug":"national-district-government-removes-informal-vendors-from-naco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/11\/national-district-government-removes-informal-vendors-from-naco\/","title":{"rendered":"National District government removes informal vendors from Naco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Street-Vendors-El-Dia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128537\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Street-Vendors-El-Dia.jpg 584w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Street-Vendors-El-Dia-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to complaints by neighborhood groups, the city government of the National District forcefully removed several informal vendors in the Naco commercial and residential area. City residents had complained the vendors caused hygiene and mobility problems in the area and for months had campaigned against them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City government Public Spaces division brigades (Direcci\u00f3n de Espacios P\u00fablicos) carried out the operation. Nine vending points were removed from sidewalks at the Heriberto Pieter street in Naco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u00edbal D\u00edaz, the director of Public Spaces who headed the dismantling operation, said: &#8220;The city government does not seek to take food from families whose livelihood depends on informal trade. However, we must educate society and make people understand that there is an established order even for informal trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u00edaz said the city government division would be vigilant to prevent the vendors from returning to the sidewalks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/alcaldia-retira-vendedores-informales-del-sector-de-naco\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 July 2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to complaints by neighborhood groups, the city government of the National District forcefully removed several informal vendors in the Naco commercial and residential area. City residents had complained the vendors caused hygiene and mobility problems in the area and for months had campaigned against them. City government Public Spaces division brigades (Direcci\u00f3n de Espacios &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/11\/national-district-government-removes-informal-vendors-from-naco\/\" 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\/128479"}],"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=128479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128538,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128479\/revisions\/128538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}