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The Natalee Holloway Case

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This book is only 64 pages. Take away the title page, dedication and table of contents and it's 60 pages.

Pity because the author has good insight into the case being from Aruba. Too bad he didn't provide more information. This is a pamphlet, not a book.

I found the book very interesting. It is such a sad story.

For years, rich American girls have been spreading lice and disease in this once paradisical tropical-paradise (actually it was an industrial hub, but anyway more tropical-paradisical than Boston, NYC or even Alabama in January). Foreign drunkards have been making hideous noise with rented motorcycles and erupted bellowing and violent from discos, bought up and speculated with local properties, to the delight of the detested island bosses, and a drug-culture has flourished. After enduring these noisome impositions for quite some time, the Arubans are astonished that rather than shouting thanks for their hospitalities, some in America have exploded in accusations and ravings, shrieking for legally sanctioned lynchings, apparently in the belief that Aruba should take over this traditional American custom; it is something from America's Christian heritage, possibly?
In any event, old Mr. Chin, Aruban in the way hardly any mobile American is American any more, tells what it was like to grow up on the 't ouwe eiland, local traditions etc. and watch the lot overwhelmed by a bunch of immigrants. Aruba contemplates making the local patois an Official Language, with entry barred to those who can't speak the lingo, and may also demand work permits.