~Calls for the intervention of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, Rejects recolonization of those territories.~
Mexico City:--- The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, made up of more than 60 progressive parties from 29 countries, strongly condemned the violation of human rights incurred by the Kingdom of The Netherlands (Holland) in the countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Saint Martin, while demanding that the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet send a special mission to document and stop serious abuses of the fundamental rights of citizens of these three countries that the Dutch commit.
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, president of COPPPAL, said that in addition to the abuses of the fundamental rights of the citizens of these three states, the gross blackmail of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is added to Aruba, Curaçao, and St. Martín, to deliver aid to face the Covid-19 pandemic and mitigate the damage to their economies, in exchange for greater interference in the affairs of Government of these three Caribbean islands.
He stated that COPPPAL rejects all forms of colonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. "In the 21st century, any type of colonialism is an embarrassment to humanity, an affront to our region, so we reject new Dutch attempts to return to old forms of domination."
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He recalled that the United Nations Declaration that demanded the eradication of colonialism on the planet turned 60 this 2020 and "Puerto Rico, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Las Malvinas, despite their long struggles, do not have full rights to their free self-determination, Basic principle of international law. The spirit and continued action of admirable figures such as Betico and Rudy Croes in Aruba or Rubén Berrios in Puerto Rico, among other endearing leaderships, continue to guide the libertarian route of these brother nations until their final victory.
For their part, Eerste Kamer and Tweede Kamer of the COPPPAL Decolonization Commission, pointed out that with the arrival of the Coronavirus, the World Tourism Organization made a calculation predicting that Aruba would lose 80 percent of its only economic pillar, which is a tourism and to avoid the collapse of their economies, Aruba, Curaçao and San Martin, islands that together with Holland form the Kingdom of the Netherlands, asked the Netherlands for the same treatment that Holland granted to Italy and Spain, countries to which it lent billions of euros without any condition to combat COVID 19 and to avoid the collapse of their economies, but the request was denied and only agreed to grant the islands that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands, loans at 0 percent of interest but with unfulfilled conditions and demands.
“Aruba has fully complied with the first and second loans despite the fact that the last one was granted with even more conditions. On July 10, the Netherlands approved the third loan, but days before, on July 6, the Prime Minister, Evelyn Wever-Croes, received a letter of secret content in which the Netherlands announced that it would only approve the loan on the condition that Aruba accepted TOTAL SUPERVISION by the Netherlands, which in practice will result in RECOLONIZATION and will mean ending the autonomy of this State within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, ”they noted.
They indicated that such fact contravenes Resolution 1514 of the 1960 United Nations General Assembly. The Netherlands gives Aruba 4 days to decide whether to accept these conditions. If not, the Netherlands will not approve this loan that Aruba urgently needs for its survival and well-being of people who lost their income overnight.
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They warned that if they do not accept the conditioning, a greater economic and social crisis will be generated in Aruba, which has become more acute since the pandemic.
Considering these facts, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean categorically condemn and reject:
First.- The annexation of Bonaire, Saba and Saint Eustaquio;
Second.- The violation of human rights in Aruba, Curaçao and San Martin; and Third.- The attempts of recolonization of Aruba, Curaçao, and St. Martin.
It is to be remembered that the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Kingdom of the Netherlands created various colonies in various parts of the world. Examples of these colonies in Asia are Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Dutch Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Formosa (Taiwan), Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand. In the Caribbean, it colonized Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, St. Martin, Saba, and San Eustaquio, which were forced as a single entity to be called the Netherlands Antilles. It should not be forgotten that Northeast Brazil (the Captaincy of Pernambuco) and part, today, of the United States were also Dutch colonies. All these colonies became independent with the exception of the Netherlands Antilles.
In 1986, BETICO CROES and the Aruban people, after years of fighting, achieved the freedom of Aruba as a separate autonomous entity within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (commonly called the Netherlands) along with the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands. In 2010 Curaçao and San Martin also achieved autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but under severe conditions of financial and judicial supervision by the Netherlands. Bonaire, Saint Eustace, and Saba were ANNEXED, against their will, with the exception of Saba, who accepted the Annexation.
COPPPAL has repeatedly condemned this ANEXION practice in our continent. In 1954, the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of
Holland which gave the islands of the Netherlands Antilles a certain degree of autonomy in certain areas such as public finance. He also promised to help these islands for a day to be free effectively. The Netherlands is currently doing Calle Ezequiel Montes 99, Colonia Tabacalera, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, C.P. 06030, Mexico City.
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just the opposite. Since January 1, 1986, Aruba achieved its autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and today it is complying with the rules of good governance in a responsible manner. Curaçao and San Martin have been autonomous since 2010.
