{"id":151357,"date":"2026-08-27T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abuse-of-power-denounced-following-the-demolition-of-a-villa-in-bonao-by-sempa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:47:44","slug":"abuse-of-power-denounced-following-the-demolition-of-a-villa-in-bonao-by-sempa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/abuse-of-power-denounced-following-the-demolition-of-a-villa-in-bonao-by-sempa\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of power denounced following the demolition of a villa in Bonao by SEMPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alleged abuse and irregular demolition of a villa in Juan Adri\u00e1n, Bonao reported<\/h2>\n\n<p>A couple residing in the Monse\u00f1or Nouel province, identified as Nelson Batista \u00c1ngeles and his wife, Guillermina De Jes\u00fas Ure\u00f1a, have raised their voices against what they describe as an abuse of power by the authorities of the National Environmental Protection Service (SEMPA). According to the complaint, their facilities were demolished without legal justification in the community of Juan Adri\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n<p>Those affected maintain that they had all the necessary legal permits for the construction of their villa. Among the documentation presented, land use certifications, authorizations for controlled tree felling, and the duly legalized deed of sale proving ownership of the land stand out. Despite having presented these documents to the corresponding authorities, they claim they were ignored during the intervention process.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Third-party interests behind the eviction<\/h3>\n\n<p>The complaining couple suggests that behind this action there is a background of private interests. According to their statements, influential figures had pressured for the demolition with the goal of enabling an access route to personal projects they own in adjacent areas.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">The owners pointed directly to Osiris de la Cruz and Henry \u00c1lvarez as those responsible for using political influence to orchestrate this forced eviction and the subsequent destruction of their private property.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authorities&#8217; intervention demanded<\/h3>\n\n<p>Faced with the loss of an investment amounting to millions of pesos and years of personal effort, Batista \u00c1ngeles and De Jes\u00fas Ure\u00f1a have formally requested the intervention of the country&#8217;s highest authorities:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Public Ministry.<\/li><li>General Directorate of SEMPA.<\/li><li>Ministry of Environment.<\/li><li>Presidency of the Republic.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The objective of this call is to initiate an exhaustive investigation into the case, to determine responsibilities, and to proceed with compensating for the damages caused by what they consider an arbitrary act that violates their right to private property.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged abuse and irregular demolition of a villa in Juan Adri\u00e1n, Bonao reported A couple residing in the Monse\u00f1or Nouel province, identified as Nelson Batista \u00c1ngeles and his wife, Guillermina De Jes\u00fas Ure\u00f1a, have raised their voices against what they describe as an abuse of power by the authorities of the National Environmental Protection Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[12693,3393,2386,14548],"class_list":{"0":"post-151357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-bonao","9":"tag-complaint","10":"tag-construction","11":"tag-sempa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}