October 6, 2023
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is allowing its Dutch protectorates to run amok. Their supervision is little or next to nothing and the region, as a collective, need to have this addressed.
What good is it to have protectorates in the Caribbean if you don’t provide adequate security or stand by your word to them for the money you had originally pledged? The latter issue makes the former problem much more magnified.
Now we not only have to deal with the narcotics trafficking- as we reported last week- making its way through the Dutch Caribbean on the way to Europe from Colombia and Venezuela, now we have mass amounts of human smuggling coming in from Venezuela. God knows where all of the people are coming from and what they want to do in their final destinations.
So, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has just not kept their eyes on their territories in the Caribbean. This is typical of European attitudes towards the Caribbean and the “possessions” they are holding on to, and for no good reason.
Most of these countries make their own tax money and get very little in terms of developmental support from their European governments. Don’t even get me started on the French territories, because that would be an editorial all to itself.
The drug trafficking and the human smuggling is not only a stain on the entire region, but will present a problem for the other Caribbean countries because as said, no one knows where all of these people are really coming from, where they will end up and what they plant to do when they end up where they want to end up? This is a very serious concern.
If the Kingdom of the Netherlands can’t maintain its own territories, maybe they should let them go?