{"id":501826,"date":"2026-03-09T18:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/student-protest-sparks-clash-with-police-in-front-of-polytechnic-in-san-francisco-de-macoris\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:42:34","slug":"student-protest-sparks-clash-with-police-in-front-of-polytechnic-in-san-francisco-de-macoris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/student-protest-sparks-clash-with-police-in-front-of-polytechnic-in-san-francisco-de-macoris\/","title":{"rendered":"Student protest sparks clash with Police in front of polytechnic in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds"},"content":{"rendered":"Moments of tension were experienced on the morning of this Monday in the vicinity of the <strong>Polit\u00e9cnico Manuel Mar\u00eda Castillo<\/strong>, where students staged a protest that ended in clashes with police officers.\n\n\n<p>The demonstration was led by the student movement FER, whose members gathered in front of the educational center to demand from the authorities of the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic the dismissal of the principal<strong>, Nicol\u00e1s V\u00e1squez Rosado, <\/strong>and the president of the <strong>Association of Parents, Mothers and Friends of the School (Apmae).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/adp-protesta-malas-condiciones\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"621045\">ADP protests poor school conditions in Santiago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nDuring the protest, the protesters set tires on fire on Nino Rizek street, in the El Capacito sector, which led to the intervention of the Police and the suspension of classes at the educational center.\n\nThe spokesperson for the student movement, <strong>\u00c1ngel Luis Reyes,<\/strong> explained that for several weeks they have denounced alleged irregularities in the administration of the polytechnic and lack of responses from the educational authorities.\n\nAmong the complaints, the leader assured that the principal of the school would be failing to comply with his work schedule, by teaching at the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Santo Domingo (UASD) during the same hours in which he should be fulfilling his administrative functions.\n\nStudents are also demanding the construction of a school cafeteria, art and chemistry labs, as well as other improvements for the educational center. Reyes warned that the protests will continue until the authorities offer a response to their demands.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments of tension were experienced on the morning of this Monday in the vicinity of the Polit\u00e9cnico Manuel Mar\u00eda Castillo, where students staged a protest that ended in clashes with police officers. The demonstration was led by the student movement FER, whose members gathered in front of the educational center to demand from the authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40357,16180],"class_list":{"0":"post-501826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dominican-news","7":"tag-national-police","8":"tag-san-francisco-de-macoris"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}