{"id":54857,"date":"2014-07-01T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=54857"},"modified":"2014-07-01T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:26:48","slug":"cotui-residents-protest-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/07\/01\/cotui-residents-protest-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotui residents protest mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hundreds of farmers from the communities of La Pinita, La Cerca, La Laguna and El Naranjo in Sanchez Ramirez province have called for the government to provide a rapid solution to claims for compensation for the damage they say has been caused to the health of the inhabitants, rivers and farming as a result of Barrick Gold mining in the area. At a demonstration held in Santo Domingo today, Tuesday 1 July 2014, they called for investigations into alleged deaths of farm animals and diseases caused by pollution as a result of the mining. Farmers&#8217; spokesman Ludovico Fernandez complained about river pollution and said there had been an increase in cancer rates in the area.<\/p>\n<p> Read more in Spanish: <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.elnuevodiario.com.do\/app\/article.aspx?id=381147<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of farmers from the communities of La Pinita, La Cerca, La Laguna and El Naranjo in Sanchez Ramirez province have called for the government to provide a rapid solution to claims for compensation for the damage they say has been caused to the health of the inhabitants, rivers and farming as a result of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/07\/01\/cotui-residents-protest-mining\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54857"}],"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=54857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}