{"id":143684,"date":"2020-07-09T08:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=143684"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:28:37","slug":"too-many-questions-in-the-death-of-prm-activist-julio-cesar-perez-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/09\/too-many-questions-in-the-death-of-prm-activist-julio-cesar-perez-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many questions in the death of PRM activist Julio C\u00e9sar P\u00e9rez on election day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Julio-Cesar-Perez-entierro-El-Caribe-e1594301306342.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143723\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lowest level of violence marked the 2020 electoral campaign in decades. And then on election day, 56-year old Julio C\u00e9sar P\u00e9rez was shot to death. He was buried at the Cristo Redentor Cemetery and his family demands justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy S\u00e1nchez Do\u00f1\u00e9 is fugitive, and suspect of having fired the shots that killed Perez. Nevertheless, those close to the deceased accuse the administrator of the Moscoso Puello Public Hospital, Grepi Polanco of the killing that occurred after a heated political debate on the outskirts of the Polit\u00e9cnico Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Carmen polling station in the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the funeral, his son, Bernardo P\u00e9rez said that there was not an exchange of shots, but instead Andy S\u00e1nchez Do\u00f1\u00e9, together with two security of administrative director Gelpi Polanco G\u00f3mez blasted their bullets against his father. Others were injured, namely 30-year old Yan Luis Gonz\u00e1lez, who was injured together with his sister 18-year old Luz Mar\u00eda D\u00edaz, and 44-year old Andres Guzm\u00e1n. They say that around 20 bullet caskets were recovered at the site of the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News media analysts are asking why did a public hospital administrator have so many security guards. Local prosecutors are investigating the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/07\/08\/sepultan-restos-de-dirigente-del-prm\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lowest level of violence marked the 2020 electoral campaign in decades. And then on election day, 56-year old Julio C\u00e9sar P\u00e9rez was shot to death. He was buried at the Cristo Redentor Cemetery and his family demands justice. Andy S\u00e1nchez Do\u00f1\u00e9 is fugitive, and suspect of having fired the shots that killed Perez. Nevertheless, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/09\/too-many-questions-in-the-death-of-prm-activist-julio-cesar-perez-on-election-day\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143684"}],"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=143684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143724,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143684\/revisions\/143724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}