{"id":95027,"date":"2017-01-31T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=95027"},"modified":"2017-01-31T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:32:42","slug":"dominican-prostitutes-protest-unfair-competition-from-venezuelans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/31\/dominican-prostitutes-protest-unfair-competition-from-venezuelans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican prostitutes protest unfair competition from Venezuelans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95030\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-95030 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/jacqueline_montero-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Montero, deputy PRM-San Crist\u00f3bal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The president of the Movement of United Women (Modemu), Jacqueline Montero, complained of the increasing arrival of Venezuelan sex workers who she says operate for lower rates than the Dominicans. Montero said she has received complaints from associates working near the Malec\u00f3n of Santo Domingo that the Venezuelans are known to accept discounts of up to RD$2,500 on the RD$3,000 rate charged by Dominicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Venezuelans have invaded the market,\u201d she says. She complained that the Venezuelans have lovely hair, are elegant, and well prepared and they now are discounting the rates. Montero urged the Venezuelans to not discount the rates. Montero said that the Venezuelans have contacts in the eastern tourism areas that bring the clients to the city.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking as president of the sexual workers group, Montero is also a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies. She represents San Crist\u00f3bal province for the PRM.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2017\/01\/27\/venezolanas-desplazan-criollas-mercado-sexual\" target=\"_blank\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>31 January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Movement of United Women (Modemu), Jacqueline Montero, complained of the increasing arrival of Venezuelan sex workers who she says operate for lower rates than the Dominicans. Montero said she has received complaints from associates working near the Malec\u00f3n of Santo Domingo that the Venezuelans are known to accept discounts of up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/01\/31\/dominican-prostitutes-protest-unfair-competition-from-venezuelans\/\" 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95027"}],"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=95027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}