{"id":209645,"date":"2024-01-16T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=209645"},"modified":"2024-01-16T08:51:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:51:48","slug":"wanda-garcia-fired-as-director-of-the-national-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/16\/wanda-garcia-fired-as-director-of-the-national-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Garc\u00eda fired as director of the National Aquarium"},"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\/Wanda-Garcia-NOticia-Libre-1024x727.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209726\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader issued Decree No. 20-24 definitely removing Wanda Garc\u00eda as general director of the National Aquarium. She had been suspended on 7 November 2023. She was appointed with the Abinader government&#8217;s start in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the start, Garc\u00eda&#8217;s management decisions had been criticized. Garc\u00eda is known as a Modern Revolutionary Party activist. She did not have a scientific or academic background when she was appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Constantino Garc\u00eda Savi\u00f1\u00f3n, the director of the National Maritime Affairs Authority, replaces her. He is appointed the interim director of the National Aquarium in an honorary capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/01\/15\/destituyen-a-la-directora-del-acuario-nacional\/2577532\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/destituyen-directora-del-acuario-nacional-tras-suspension-por-irregularidades-1568714\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 January 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader issued Decree No. 20-24 definitely removing Wanda Garc\u00eda as general director of the National Aquarium. She had been suspended on 7 November 2023. She was appointed with the Abinader government&#8217;s start in August 2020. From the start, Garc\u00eda&#8217;s management decisions had been criticized. Garc\u00eda is known as a Modern Revolutionary Party activist. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/16\/wanda-garcia-fired-as-director-of-the-national-aquarium\/\" 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\/209645"}],"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=209645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209728,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209645\/revisions\/209728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}