{"id":94599,"date":"2017-01-23T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=94599"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:11:22","slug":"santo-domingo-west-mayor-closes-luperon-av-bazaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/23\/santo-domingo-west-mayor-closes-luperon-av-bazaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo West mayor closes Luper\u00f3n Av. bazaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94601\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94601\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Luper\u00f3n-Avenue-Market-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luper\u00f3n Av. street market<br \/>Johnny Rotest\u00e1n \/ El Caribe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Mayor of Santo Domingo West Francisco Pe\u00f1a said that the city government would not allow the installation of the Malec\u00f3n vendor bazaar next Sunday, 29 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The bazaar has created a slum area on the Malec\u00f3n where it intersects with the Luper\u00f3n Avenue and Km. 12 of the S\u00e1nchez Highway. The decision of the Ayuntamiento de Santo Domingo Oeste (ASDO) will affect more than 150 vendors that had taken over the area impeding normal traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Pe\u00f1a announced a recreational area would instead be built under the overpass of S\u00e1nchez Highway at Km. 12 where the city open-air market had been operating for years.<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo Labata Tamares, who is in charge of security for the ASDO, told El Caribe reporters that the city government has not accepted payments from the vendors nor any agreement for these to continue to offer their wares at the city road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Caro, spokesman for the vendors, told El Caribe reporters that he had met with the mayor on Tuesday, 17 January, and the mayor had only required that the vendors find ways to not affect the flow of traffic through the western section of Santo Domingo. \u201cWe have 13 years there. Mayor Roberto Salcedo brought us there. We did not invade the area. All we want is to reach an agreement where none of the parts is affected,\u201d he told El Caribe reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2017\/01\/23\/comienzan-desalojar-mercado-las-pulgas\" target=\"_blank\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of Santo Domingo West Francisco Pe\u00f1a said that the city government would not allow the installation of the Malec\u00f3n vendor bazaar next Sunday, 29 January 2017. The bazaar has created a slum area on the Malec\u00f3n where it intersects with the Luper\u00f3n Avenue and Km. 12 of the S\u00e1nchez Highway. The decision of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/23\/santo-domingo-west-mayor-closes-luperon-av-bazaar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[72,73,74,75,76,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94599"}],"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=94599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}