{"id":186158,"date":"2022-09-19T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=186158"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:00:47","slug":"the-dominican-republic-withdraws-its-diplomats-from-port-au-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/the-dominican-republic-withdraws-its-diplomats-from-port-au-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dominican Republic withdraws its diplomats from Port-au-Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Embajada-Dominicana-en-Haiti-Listin-Diario-1024x465.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186217\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time since the administration of then President Juan Bosch in 1963, the Dominican Republic has withdrawn all of its staff from the embassy in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. In place, the DR has sent a unit of special troops to protect the embassy from the widespread violence now occurring on a daily basis. With most businesses shut down, the capital of Haiti is a ghost town, and reports are that only the numerous gangs roam the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, as reported by President Abinader to the OAS, the Dominican Republic issued instructions seeking to strengthen impediments for gangs to enter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights, civil rights and law and order are just words in Haiti at the present time, with reports of a kidnapping every 11 hours, and the UN reporting nearly 800 murders in the first five months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2022\/09\/15\/738864\/envian-tropas-especiales-a-embajada-dominicana-en-haiti\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 September 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the administration of then President Juan Bosch in 1963, the Dominican Republic has withdrawn all of its staff from the embassy in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. In place, the DR has sent a unit of special troops to protect the embassy from the widespread violence now occurring on a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/the-dominican-republic-withdraws-its-diplomats-from-port-au-prince\/\" 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":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186158"}],"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=186158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186218,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186158\/revisions\/186218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}