{"id":156539,"date":"2021-04-19T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=156539"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:22:38","slug":"congress-approves-us6-59-billion-in-loans-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/congress-approves-us6-59-billion-in-loans-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress approves US$6.59 billion in loans in eight months"},"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\/2021\/04\/Congreso-aprueba-6-mm-en-8-meses-El-Caribe-e1618842135222.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156583\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first eight months of the Abinader administration, the National Congress has approved loans and financing for more than US$6.59 billion to deal with the health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As reported in El Caribe, for health-specific tasks, the government has taken on more than US$900 million in loans, including those to finance the Covid-19 vaccines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loans have also been taken to finance the Yaque del Norte river basin improvement program; to increase transportation capacity of Santo Domingo Metro line 1 and support the first stage of the EdeSur Master Plan for the Expansion of the Electricity Distribution System (PMESD), among other government projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/dinero\/congreso-aprueba-en-ocho-meses-us6599-millones-en-prestamos\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first eight months of the Abinader administration, the National Congress has approved loans and financing for more than US$6.59 billion to deal with the health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As reported in El Caribe, for health-specific tasks, the government has taken on more than US$900 million in loans, including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/congress-approves-us6-59-billion-in-loans-in-eight-months\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156539"}],"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=156539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156584,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156539\/revisions\/156584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}