{"id":23304,"date":"2009-07-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/ede-este-cost-us207-2-million\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:43:56","slug":"ede-este-cost-us207-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/07\/13\/ede-este-cost-us207-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ede-Este cost US$207.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> To buy back the power distribution company, Ede-Este, the Fernandez administration took on US$180.7 million in debt &#8211; US$157 to generators and US$23.7 million to suppliers. The deal also involved a US$26.5 million disbursement to Trust Capital of the West (TCW) for their 50% private participation in the power distribution company that handled a third of billings in the country. This brings the buy-back cost to US$207.2 million, as reported in El Dia.  El Dia reports that as of 31 December 2008, the Ede-Este had a current debt of US$848 million. With the purchase of Ede-Este, the Fernandez government is now the sole proprietor of distribution companies in the DR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To buy back the power distribution company, Ede-Este, the Fernandez administration took on US$180.7 million in debt &#8211; US$157 to generators and US$23.7 million to suppliers. The deal also involved a US$26.5 million disbursement to Trust Capital of the West (TCW) for their 50% private participation in the power distribution company that handled a third &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/07\/13\/ede-este-cost-us207-2-million\/\" 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":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304"}],"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=23304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}