Aruba, an island in Distress: Surrounded by Uncertainty, Cover Up and Mystery

  

(Vanderbilt — ’06)

Some 15 months later Aruba finds itself an island in distress surrounded by a sea of mystery and cover-up  due to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. As Vanderbilt points out, “even the the waters surrounding Aruba looks much  like Natalee’s clothing to tourists. Scary.“

Tourism continues to fall even though the story of Natalee’s disappearance is not in the headlines everyday. People have made up their minds and until Aruba decides to come clean there will not even be a chance of tourists returning. No amount of money or marketing will fix this problem. Justice for Natalee just might.

Fidel Castro cedes power to Brother Prior to Surgery

Cuban president Fidel Castro makes just a little bit of news with the announcement of relinquishing power due to his heath problem prior to surgery. Spontaneous celebration among Cuban exiles in South Florida’s Little Havana. What blockades, embargoes and boycotts could not do, old age and health issues may just be the answer.

The Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin  have a great round up of events and a whole lot of dancing in the streets.

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AM Digital: Measures Will Increase Alcohol & Drug Users Among the Youth

Wasn’t it Joran Van der Sloot in an interview who stated it was American teenagers who drank too much? And he though it was wrong.

(AM Digital, click on article to enlarge)

Greta Van Susteren Interview with Joran Van der Sloot, Part 1 (March 1, 2006)

VAN SUSTEREN: OK. OK. And were they acting like they had been drinking quite liberally and freely? Could you tell whether they were?

VAN DER SLOOT: I mean, yes, they were drinking liberally and freely, but I mean, I think they had every right to. I mean, they had graduated. They just finished their high school. You know, they’d just been — they’d finished their high school, and I think they had every right to come to Aruba and have — and you know, and celebrate their graduation. I mean, they worked for that their whole life. And I’ve met tons of people that do the same thing.

And I mean, one problem I might have seen with it is the drinking age in the United States is 21 and the drinking age in Aruba is 18. And you know, I’ve met a lot of people that when they’re — you know, whose parents don’t let them drink or do anything like that, and when they — you know, when they come to Aruba and they get a chance to drink, they go — you know, they go overboard, and that’s something that’s — that’s bad, something that shouldn’t happen.

Joran Van der Sloot just admitted the drinking age in Aruba was 18. Joran, you were how old when you were in Carlos N’ Charlies when you left with Natalee Holloway? You think its a bad thing when American female tourists come to Aruba and go overboard drinking? Really? Then why was it that you found it perfectly acceptable to order a 151 rum shot to a petite girl who obviously already had too much to drink?

“… you know, when they come to Aruba and they get a chance to drink, they go — you know, they go overboard, and that’s something that’s — that’s bad, something that shouldn’t happen.”

A bad thing. Spare us your noble concern. You do not think its a bad thing … in fact you pray on it occurring. You actually facilitated it with a 151 shot. Why else would you go to a bar 1/2 before closing if not to find the  most helpless  person in the group and separate her from her friends?