{"id":3405,"date":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/lockward-continues-his-bid-for-release\/"},"modified":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-03-13T01:43:56","slug":"lockward-continues-his-bid-for-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/13\/lockward-continues-his-bid-for-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockward continues his bid for release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All media continue to focus on the Angel Lockward case, with today&#8217;s<br \/>\npapers highlighting the fact that one of the defense lawyers for the former commerce &amp; industry minister is Salvador Jorge Blanco ? the<br \/>\nonly former President of the Dominican Republic to have been brought to justice for corruption. Today Lockward, who considers his detention<br \/>\nas tantamount to ?kidnapping?, will have served 48 hours in custody, the legal time limit a person can be held before having to appear<br \/>\nbefore the court. In another political corruption case, La Vega PRD deputy and former Dominican consul in Haiti, Radham?s Ramos Garc?a,<br \/>\naccused of trafficking in illegal Chinese immigrants, has applied for<br \/>\na special exit permit so that he can seek medical treatment in Cuba.&nbsp; Diario Libre, in its back page commentary, gives a possible<br \/>\nexplanation for Jorge Blanco?s defending of Lockward: ?That shows that he does not hate the Reformistas.? The PRD has been courting the PRSC<br \/>\nto garner enough votes to retain power in the 2004 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All media continue to focus on the Angel Lockward case, with today&#8217;s papers highlighting the fact that one of the defense lawyers for the former commerce &amp; industry minister is Salvador Jorge Blanco ? the only former President of the Dominican Republic to have been brought to justice for corruption. Today Lockward, who considers his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/13\/lockward-continues-his-bid-for-release\/\" 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":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405"}],"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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}