{"id":154171,"date":"2026-09-01T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/angelo-vasquez-praises-santiago-matias-leadership-and-bets-on-change\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:19:45","slug":"angelo-vasquez-praises-santiago-matias-leadership-and-bets-on-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/angelo-vasquez-praises-santiago-matias-leadership-and-bets-on-change\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez praises Santiago Mat\u00edas&#8217; leadership and bets on change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez distances himself from political confrontations and highlights Santiago Mat\u00edas&#8217; career<\/h2>\n\n<p>Aspiring politician \u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez has reaffirmed his intention to enter the country&#8217;s public life with the main objective of offering concrete solutions to the problems affecting the Dominican Republic. In his recent statements, V\u00e1squez emphasized that his project does not seek conflict with other emerging leaders, including businessman and media figure Santiago Mat\u00edas.<\/p>\n\n<p>During his appearance on an interview program, V\u00e1squez was asked how he plans to differentiate his political proposal from the one that the CEO of Alofoke Media Group has begun to develop. In response, the candidate defined himself as a citizen committed to the national well-being, whose purpose is to contribute positive efforts for the country&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am a simple Dominican who thinks that the Dominican Republic needs Dominican solutions and who only wants to contribute his grain of sand to his country.<\/p><cite>\u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assessment of Santiago Mat\u00edas<\/h3>\n\n<p>Regarding Santiago Mat\u00edas, V\u00e1squez showed a stance of respect and recognition toward his management ability and business vision. He pointed out that there is a tendency to underestimate Mat\u00edas, despite the evident results he has managed to consolidate throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>V\u00e1squez highlighted that the success achieved by Mat\u00edas is proof of his intelligence and strategy.<\/li><li>He confirmed that he maintains a friendship and fluid communication with the businessman.<\/li><li>He rejected the idea that new political actors should confront each other.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A call for the unity of emerging leaders<\/h3>\n\n<p>When questioned about other personalities who have shown interest in the political sphere, such as Yadira Marte and Ramfis Dom\u00ednguez Trujillo, the candidate was emphatic that the energy of new leaderships must be focused on the structural challenges of the State and not on internal disputes.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cHere we have to face, not each other. We must have vision. Against whom do we fight? Against those who govern\u201d, pointed out V\u00e1squez, making it clear that his focus is high-level debate against traditional government administrations.<\/p>\n\n<p>This positioning occurs at a time when the Dominican political landscape is experiencing the emergence of figures outside of conventional party structures, who seek to capture the attention of an electorate that demands new ways of doing politics in the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez distances himself from political confrontations and highlights Santiago Mat\u00edas&#8217; career Aspiring politician \u00c1ngelo V\u00e1squez has reaffirmed his intention to enter the country&#8217;s public life with the main objective of offering concrete solutions to the problems affecting the Dominican Republic. In his recent statements, V\u00e1squez emphasized that his project does not seek conflict with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[14923,1271,4077,7576],"class_list":{"0":"post-154171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-angelo-vasquez","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-policy","11":"tag-santiago-matias"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154171","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=154171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}