{"id":56558,"date":"2014-08-28T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=56558"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:29:45","slug":"transport-kingpins-want-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/08\/28\/transport-kingpins-want-to-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport kingpins want to run for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Transport union leaders Juan Hubieres of Fenatrado and Antonio Marte of Conatra, whose affiliates&#8217; vehicles are known as &#8220;voladoras&#8221; with a monopoly on many routes in Santo Domingo, are seeking political recognition from the Central Electoral Board (JCE) for their political parties. Hubieres is a deputy who ran on the ruling PLD party ticket. The parties will then be able to put forward candidates for the Presidency in the May 2016 national election. <\/p>\n<p> The Dominican government awards billions of pesos in funds to the political parties with little accountability. The monopolies are outlawed by the Constitution but tolerated by governments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport union leaders Juan Hubieres of Fenatrado and Antonio Marte of Conatra, whose affiliates&#8217; vehicles are known as &#8220;voladoras&#8221; with a monopoly on many routes in Santo Domingo, are seeking political recognition from the Central Electoral Board (JCE) for their political parties. Hubieres is a deputy who ran on the ruling PLD party ticket. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/08\/28\/transport-kingpins-want-to-run-for-president\/\" 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\/56558"}],"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=56558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}