{"id":129596,"date":"2019-08-07T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129596"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:51:40","slug":"air-force-plans-to-buy-new-aircraft-to-fight-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/07\/air-force-plans-to-buy-new-aircraft-to-fight-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force plans to buy new aircraft to fight drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Super-Tucano-El-Informante-1024x621.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Super-Tucano-El-Informante-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Super-Tucano-El-Informante-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Super-Tucano-El-Informante-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Super-Tucano-El-Informante.png 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Super Tucanos at the San Isidro Air Base<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Air Force is considering the purchase of new aircraft and radar equipment. Major General Richard V\u00e1squez of the Air Force said the purchase would be made to strengthen the surveillance of the air space and reduce the operating costs of the Super Tucano aircraft. Major General  Vasquez told El Dia that the purchases are needed to combat drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would be the second major purchase of aircraft by the Dominican government. The case on corruption in the purchase of the Super Tucanos is being heard in a Dominican court. Embraer admitted in 2014 to making cash for contract payments to Dominican officers to ensure the purchase of the eight Super Tucano aircraft during a former Leonel Fernandez presidency. The argument then was that the aircraft was needed to police Dominican skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/la-fuerza-aerea-evalua-adquisicion-de-nuevos-radares-y-aeronaves\/\">El Dia<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/brazil-files-bribery-charges-in-embraer-aircraft-sale-to-dominican-republic-1411502236\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Air Force is considering the purchase of new aircraft and radar equipment. Major General Richard V\u00e1squez of the Air Force said the purchase would be made to strengthen the surveillance of the air space and reduce the operating costs of the Super Tucano aircraft. Major General Vasquez told El Dia that the purchases &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/07\/air-force-plans-to-buy-new-aircraft-to-fight-drug-trafficking\/\" 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\/129596"}],"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=129596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129647,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129596\/revisions\/129647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}