Holland says NO to Chavez.

Just published in the Groene Amsterdammer, a Dutch magazine, the following article.

The Minister for Foreign affairs of the Netherlands, Mr. Ben Bot has recently make an quick visit to Secretary of State of the US, Ms. Condoleeza Rice to discuss some important issues.

Aruba, was definitely one of the reason the Minister had to contact the Secretary and a few other issues were tackled for example the statement of the Extremist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, in which this Looney Tune acknowledged on national television that he considers the Dutch ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao) as part of the Republic of Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez Frias is gaining or trying to gain support against the USA in the Caribbean countries by offering special deals on petroleum and other products from Venezuela. And USA is not helping either by letting a group of American to bash and try to boycott one of the Caribbean islands, this case Aruba and letting them do this under the cover of Freedom of Speech.

But The Kingdom of Netherlands categorically denies that the Kingdom will ever let these island be part of other country in the world. These are Dutch countries and will stay so, as long as The Kingdom and the islands themselves want that.

Aruba has multiple American companies, thousands of American tourists everyday and has even a Forward Operation Location on the island to monitor drug trafficking in the area, who uses Aruba as a hub to transport drugs to USA and Europe.