{"id":41886,"date":"2000-02-24T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-02-24T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/carnival-merengue-song-is-anti-dr\/"},"modified":"2000-02-24T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-02-24T01:43:56","slug":"carnival-merengue-song-is-anti-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/02\/24\/carnival-merengue-song-is-anti-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival merengue song is anti DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Siglo newspaper reports that in Haiti the leading radio stations and carnival partying is to the tune of a catchy merengue that promotes violence and an anti-Dominican sentiment amongst Haitians. The merengue motivates Haitians to violence and urges them to fight against a supposed Dominican invasion of Haiti. Hate sentiments amongst Haitians are considered by political analysts one of the main reasons for Haiti&#8217;s poverty. The Haitian Lavalas movement promoted by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide is regarded as a promoter of violence and hate within Haiti. Aristide during his first presidency was also a major antagonist against good relations with the DR. To read the words of the merengue in Spanish, see the El Siglo http:\/\/www.elsiglord.com\/nacionales\/24\/15.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Siglo newspaper reports that in Haiti the leading radio stations and carnival partying is to the tune of a catchy merengue that promotes violence and an anti-Dominican sentiment amongst Haitians. The merengue motivates Haitians to violence and urges them to fight against a supposed Dominican invasion of Haiti. Hate sentiments amongst Haitians are considered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/02\/24\/carnival-merengue-song-is-anti-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41886"}],"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=41886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}