{"id":151614,"date":"2020-12-28T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=151614"},"modified":"2020-12-28T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T13:50:13","slug":"el-pais-interviews-president-luis-abinader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/28\/el-pais-interviews-president-luis-abinader\/","title":{"rendered":"El Pais interviews President Luis Abinader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Luis-Abinader-El-Pais-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151647\"\/><figcaption>El presedente  de Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, Luis Abinader, posa para una fotograf\u00eda en el sal\u00f3n  Blanco del Palacio Nacional.\nLuis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (Santo Domingo, 12 de julio de 1967) es un pol\u00edtico, economista y empresario dominicano. Es el sexag\u00e9simo s\u00e9ptimo presidente de la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana por el Partido Revolucionario Moderno, cargo que asumi\u00f3 desde el 16 de agosto de 2020, tras vencer en las elecciones extraordinarias generales del mismo a\u00f1o.\n16 de diciembre de 2020, Santo Domingo, Rep\u00fablica Dominicana.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with El Pais, President Luis Abinader spoke about efforts to bring welfare to the poor and back creating jobs in the private sector. \u201cThe best social program is creating jobs,\u201d he said. He spoke of making government more efficient, improving institutions and independent administration of justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also mentioned he and his wife spent a night at the Presidential Palace. In the Dominican Republic, it is customary for the head of state to live outside the Presidential Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interview, President Abinader expressed his position in favor of the three exceptions to the absolute ban on abortion. This is the same position maintained by former President Danilo Medina who on two occasions banned the passing of an amended Penal Code because it did not incorporate the exceptions for incest, rape and risk to the life of the mother and child. Abinader said the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) shares this position. Nevertheless, the PRM that now is majority in Congress, has maneuvered so as to remove the abortion clauses from the Penal Code, leaving these to be included in a separate bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abinader spoke of the government\u2019s position of collaborating with the international community for building hospitals in Haiti. At present, hundreds of thousands of Haitians cross the border to receive free services at Dominican hospital emergency areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abinader said that Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic is \u201cunder control,\u201d with a low fatality rate. The president of the Dominican Society of Infectology Rita Rojas disputed the statement that the disease is under control and warns of a major surge in cases in January due to family and friend gatherings for the holidays. Abinader has said normalcy will return once the vaccination programs are working in the DR and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/internacional\/2020-12-26\/luis-abinader-en-la-nueva-guerra-fria-necesitamos-una-relacion-estrategica-con-estados-unidos.html\">El Pais <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/el-aborto-enciende-debates-los-hay-a-favor-y-en-contra-GC23478943\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/am\/la-discusion-PC23479644\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 December 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with El Pais, President Luis Abinader spoke about efforts to bring welfare to the poor and back creating jobs in the private sector. \u201cThe best social program is creating jobs,\u201d he said. He spoke of making government more efficient, improving institutions and independent administration of justice. He also mentioned he and his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/28\/el-pais-interviews-president-luis-abinader\/\" 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\/151614"}],"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=151614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151649,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151614\/revisions\/151649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}