{"id":194444,"date":"2023-03-06T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=194444"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:23:06","slug":"former-us-ambassador-wally-brewster-is-a-consultant-to-the-dominican-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/former-us-ambassador-wally-brewster-is-a-consultant-to-the-dominican-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US Ambassador Wally Brewster is a consultant to the Dominican government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/James-Brewster-Siendo-Honestos-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194542\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>El Caribe reports that the former US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Wally Brewster (during the Obama administration, 2013-2017) has a home in Casa de Campo and is a consultant to the Dominican government. In an interview with Katherine Hernandez for &#8220;Siendo Honestos&#8221; on CDN, Channel 37, Wally Brewster explained that his company Patino, Brewster &amp; Partners has an official domicile in Dallas, Texas, but he opted with his partner Bob Satawake to purchase a residence in Casa de Campo, La Romana after ending his term as ambassador in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are currently working with a couple of ministries here in the Dominican Republic in building relations with the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are also working on connecting the Haitian ambassador and his relationship with the United States and there are other governments that we are also working with,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brewster denied the possibility of returning to head the US mission in the DR, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it would be the right thing to do.&#8221; He justified that the Biden administration still does not have an ambassador in the country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He denied that bilateral relations are going through a bad moment and said the appointing of an ambassador is &#8220;a complex process. &#8221; He explained there are some Republicans like Ted Cruz of Texas and others who can simply block a nomination even though it slows down and hurts our international relations because it slows down the process tremendously. Let&#8217;s not take it personally, there is an excellent relationship with the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke of Haiti as a &#8220;major challenge.&#8221; He said that people are dealing with food security issues, there is no water, they are dealing with violence and kidnapping\u2026the United States must take that leadership and that is what I am sponsoring in Washington and I will continue to advocate, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=War6hzgoOdo\">Siendo Honestos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/opiniones\/wally-brewster-es-contratado-por-gobierno\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Caribe reports that the former US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Wally Brewster (during the Obama administration, 2013-2017) has a home in Casa de Campo and is a consultant to the Dominican government. In an interview with Katherine Hernandez for &#8220;Siendo Honestos&#8221; on CDN, Channel 37, Wally Brewster explained that his company Patino, Brewster &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/former-us-ambassador-wally-brewster-is-a-consultant-to-the-dominican-government\/\" 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":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194444"}],"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=194444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194543,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194444\/revisions\/194543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}