{"id":98034,"date":"2017-04-18T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=98034"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:29:44","slug":"mystery-over-customs-dismissals98034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/04\/18\/mystery-over-customs-dismissals98034\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery over Customs\u2019 dismissals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98074\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98074\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Customs-Agency-El-Nuevo-Diario-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customs Agency Headquarters \/ El Nuevo Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Customs Agency has dismissed a group of agents who were working at Las Americas Airport, who, as it turns out, were mostly affiliated with the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).<\/p>\n<p>The group said that they were submitt<\/p>\n<p>ed to lie detector tests and were later fired with no explanation. At the same time, they blamed their dismissal on the head of Customs Intelligence Department, Ramon Valerio and his son, Nellk Valerio, who also works for the organization as supervisor and administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Among those dismissed is the coordinator of the \u201cMovement AILA with Danilo,\u201d Vicente Romero who supported the recent reelection of the president which has apparently caused great concern among his fellow employees at the airport, saying he was a model and honest employee and an excellent person held in great affection by his fellow employees.<\/p>\n<p>Also dismissed were Luis Alberto Escolastico, Miguel Osoria, Julia Rosario, Edgar D\u00edas Jim\u00e9nez and Isabel Mesa de la Cruz, all members of the PLD and who had been working for several years in Customs at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General of Customs, Enrique Ram\u00edrez Paniagua, has demanded an explanation of the situation, given that many were long time employees of the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elnuevodiario.com.do\/app\/article.aspx?id=530501\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 April 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Agency has dismissed a group of agents who were working at Las Americas Airport, who, as it turns out, were mostly affiliated with the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). The group said that they were submitt ed to lie detector tests and were later fired with no explanation. At the same time, they blamed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/04\/18\/mystery-over-customs-dismissals98034\/\" 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\/98034"}],"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=98034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}