{"id":130051,"date":"2017-11-10T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130051"},"modified":"2017-11-10T00:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:37:26","slug":"el-salvador-warns-uber-drivers-to-cease-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/10\/el-salvador-warns-uber-drivers-to-cease-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador warns Uber, drivers to cease operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111185\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2F8DZeeB_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111185\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2F8DZeeB_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Uber (Photo: Uber\/Twitter)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2F8DZeeB_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2F8DZeeB_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2F8DZeeB_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Uber (Photo: Uber\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador \u2014 A top official in El Salvador is warning Uber that the ride-hailing app is operating outside the law and must cease operations, six months after launching in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Vice Minister Nelson Garcia says Salvadoran law does not provide for that kind of private transportation and new legislation would have to be passed for it to be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said Thursday that Uber drivers may have their cars seized, face fines or have their licenses and plates revoked if they don&#8217;t comply.<\/p>\n<p>No Uber representative in El Salvador could be located, and there was no immediate response to an email sent to an address for media inquiries at its U.S. headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Uber launched in El Salvador in May, generating jobs for its drivers but also angering licensed cabbies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador \u2014 A top official in El Salvador is warning Uber that the ride-hailing app is operating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[2977,10203,2132],"class_list":["post-130051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-drivers","tag-el-salvador","tag-uber","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}