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Island state in the Caribbean, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Claims that Jews were "largely" or predominantly responsible for the European slave trade from the 14th through 17th centuries do not stand up to careful historical scrutiny: evidence shows Jewish par...
ConocoPhillips’ long-running dispute with Venezuela stems from the 2007 nationalisation of three oil projects and has produced multiple arbitration wins for the company—ICC and ICSID awards totaling b...
U.S. strikes on small vessels that Washington says were tied to Venezuelan drug networks began in early September 2025 and have been reported in the Caribbean Sea and, more recently, the eastern Pacif...
Traffickers moving Andean cocaine routinely use Venezuela as a transshipment hub; reporting and analysis point to northwestern Venezuelan ports (Zulia, Falcón, La Guaira) sending loads to nearby ABC i...
Caribbean islands and territories most frequently identified as transshipment hubs include the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Leeward eastern islands like Aruba and Curaçao, and parts of ...
The primary Caribbean transshipment hubs for cocaine bound for the United States are concentrated where geography, weak controls, and existing smuggling networks intersect: the island of Hispaniola (b...
Since the 2019 ICSID award to ConocoPhillips and earlier awards to ExxonMobil, both oil majors have pursued a multi‑jurisdictional enforcement strategy that mixes recognition and registration of ICSID...
There is no explicit evidence in the provided reporting that identifies a slaveholder in Curaçao with the last name "Isidora"; the sources emphasize that searchable slave registers and emancipation re...
The available reporting provided to this inquiry contains substantial material about Wenceslau de Moraes, a Portuguese writer who lived in Japan, and background on Otrabanda in Willemstad, Curaçao, bu...
No reliable evidence in the provided reporting identifies a person named "Wenceslau de Jongh" associated with Otrobanda, Curaçao; the documents instead return a well-documented Portuguese writer Wence...
Rafael Cohen Henriquez was a member of Curaçao’s Sephardi Jewish Cohen Henriquez family, recorded in genealogical databases as born 8 June 1850 in Curaçao and dying 23 July 1921 in Curaçao . Contempor...
The name Abraham Cohen Henriquez does not point to a single, well‑documented individual in the supplied reporting but instead recurs across Curaçao’s Sephardic genealogical and communal record — appea...
Companies enforcing arbitration awards against the Republic of Venezuela and its state oil company PDVSA have pursued a mix of international-arbitration recognition and aggressive domestic remedies: r...
U.S. courts — especially the federal courts in the Third Circuit and Delaware — and certain Caribbean courts (notably Trinidad and Tobago and courts in the Dutch Caribbean such as Curaçao) have been t...
Smartmatic’s public story about who controls the company has shifted from a complex, multinational corporate web to a simplified, family‑centered ownership narrative — a change reflected in PR pages, ...
Major Caribbean transshipment hubs for cocaine linked to Venezuela and broader South American flows include the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Aruba, Curaçao, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago — ea...
Traffickers use a wide set of Caribbean islands as transshipment nodes; published analyses and official strategy documents repeatedly name the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands,...
Caribbean islands most frequently identified in recent reporting and government analyses as major transshipment hubs for cocaine linked to Venezuela and onward routes include the Dominican Republic, H...
Caribbean transshipment points for drugs originating in or moving through Venezuela include Venezuelan islands such as Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago, which have been repeatedly reported as ...
Venezuelan territory and waters are repeatedly cited in 2024–25 reporting as part of regional cocaine and coastal smuggling networks, but multiple sources say Venezuela is a corridor, not the dominant...