{"id":209643,"date":"2024-01-16T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=209643"},"modified":"2024-01-16T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:44:50","slug":"the-very-costly-border-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/16\/the-very-costly-border-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"The very costly border gate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-1024x695.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209724\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-1024x695.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Verja-Perimetral-Frontera-Dominico-Haitiana-Diario-Libre.png 1394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre is reporting on how the government has advanced 87% of the contracted payments and the Ministry of Defense has only delivered 2.7 km of the border gate. The project was contracted a year and eight months ago.  The first stretch of the block and wired fence was inaugurated in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a on 19 October. The Ministry of Defense says payments through November 2023 for RD$1.53 billion have been made. The contractors have a contract for RD$1.74 billion to build the so-called for the so-called \u201cintelligent gateway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/01\/14\/contrato-de-la-verja-fronteriza-se-ha-ejecutado-en-mas-del-87\/2575431\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 January 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diario Libre is reporting on how the government has advanced 87% of the contracted payments and the Ministry of Defense has only delivered 2.7 km of the border gate. The project was contracted a year and eight months ago. The first stretch of the block and wired fence was inaugurated in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a on 19 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/16\/the-very-costly-border-gate\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209643"}],"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=209643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209725,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209643\/revisions\/209725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}