While people in places like Lebanon, Gaza, Donbass and Iran are fighting bloody wars to defend their right to self-determination and territorial sovereignty under the principles of the United Nations Charter, Curaçao faces a different, quiet and silenced battle, one without bloodshed, but with consequences that may be just as permanent.
he concern is simple but profound: the gradual transfer of Curaçao its land into the hands of foreign vulture capital, often through government-forced land sales, deadly long-term lease agreements and capitalist development concessions that increasingly reshape who controls the island’s most valuable locations.
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This is not framed as war, nor is it accompanied by violence. But for many, the end result feels similar: the slow loss of meaningful control over one’s own territory. in the meanwhile drugs trade, prostitution and money laundering are ticking the household clock.
At the center of the debate is the lucrative property of its natural land, turned into a swamp of concrete jungle of tax evading mass tourism factories, which turns the luxury vacations into local human misery.
Curaçao, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, covers just 444 square kilometers. For a small island, land is more than an economic asset — it is identity, history, culture and future opportunity.
Yet concerns are growing over what critics describe as the large-scale sale and long-term lease of strategic lands to hostile foreign investors, particularly in high-value coastal areas and ecologically significant locations.
Questions are also being raised about the privatization of access to coastlines and public beaches, spaces that many Curaçao its local ancestry consider part of the island’s shared heritage and public traditional identity.
The broader issue goes beyond individual land deals. It touches on who benefits from development, who has access to opportunity and whether the island’s economic settler model increasingly favors external capital over local participation.
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Critics argue that this creates an imbalance in which Curaçao risks becoming spectators in the transformation of their own country, while outsiders gain access to opportunities and privileges that many locals struggle to obtain.
This perception feeds into larger concerns about transparency, fairness and governance.
Calls are growing for full public disclosure of land transactions, especially where public land or long-term leasehold rights are involved. Transparency, advocates argue, is essential to ensuring that national assets are managed in the public interest.
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There is also increasing pressure for stronger parliamentary oversight and public debate on major land and development decisions, particularly those involving sensitive environmental, cultural or strategic areas.
At its core, the issue is not whether foreign investment is welcome. Investment remains essential for economic growth, but without a large carbon footprint of mass polluting tourist factories and foreign illegal based job creation.
The real question is whether that investment takes place within a framework that protects the long-term interests of the people of Curaçao.
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A country that loses control over its land risks losing far more than territory. It risks losing part of its identity, its autonomy and its ability to shape its own future.
For Curaçao, this debate about return of investment is becoming more urgent. Development can bring progress.
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But progress without balance, transparency and protection of national interests may carry costs that are difficult to reverse.
According to Erwin Rafaela, the challenge for Curaçao now is not whether to grow, but how to grow—without losing itself in the process.
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MAN-PIN parliamentarian Giselle Mc William is again demanding clarity from the Curaçao government about possible oil and gas exploration in the island’s territorial waters, warning that Curaçao may be missing a major economic opportunity while Aruba moves ahead with offshore energy studies.
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Her renewed call follows reports that U.S.-based Armstrong Oil & Gas is expected to present preliminary research findings later this year for offshore exploration projects near Aruba.
Aruba signed a production-sharing agreement with the company in 2024 and has been actively updating its Parliament on developments since then.
According to Mc William, it remains unclear why Curaçao has not formally joined or aligned itself with a similar exploration process, despite what she says were earlier contacts between Armstrong and Curaçao authorities.
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She stated that the American company had previously approached Curaçao and held talks with the government, as well as with Refineria di Kòrsou and 2Bays Curaçao.
However, according to her, there has been no visible progress since those conversations and Parliament has not been informed about any follow-up steps.
Mc William questioned the transparency of the current cabinet, pointing out that Aruba has kept its Parliament informed on the matter since 2023, while Curaçao’s legislature remains in the dark.
Where is the transparency and where is the priority of this government? she asked, arguing that if neighboring Aruba moves toward possible drilling and Curaçao remains passive, the island could lose out on strategic economic benefits.
Armstrong Oil & Gas has attracted attention in the region because of its track record in major oil discoveries in Alaska, including the multi-billion-barrel Pikka field.
The company has described Aruba’s offshore prospects as potentially significant and is currently reprocessing seismic data to determine whether exploratory drilling could begin as early as 2026 or 2027.
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Mc William also highlighted Curaçao’s strategic location in the southern Caribbean, particularly its proximity to Venezuela, where Armstrong is also active in energy-related projects.
According to her, cooperation between Aruba, Curaçao and Venezuela in offshore exploration could create economic opportunities for all three, especially if commercial reserves are found.
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She described the oil and gas sector as a potential “game-changer” for Curaçao’s economy, particularly at a time when the island is seeking diversification beyond tourism and refining.
The issue is expected to increase political pressure on the government to clarify whether Curaçao still intends to pursue offshore oil and gas exploration, or whether the island risks falling behind regional developments in the energy sector.
Curacao Chronicle / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Everything goes according to plan for the colonial Dutch invaders, just like West Bank an evil Zionist formula to bring outside corporate settlers into the equation in order to profit from cheap foreign refugee slave labor. At the same time a large part of the local born population is systematically deported as economic refugees to Migrant occupied Netherlands. Curacao has turned into a police state with dozens of armed agencies protecting the invasive industry without major bloodshed yet. Many US and Dutch military bases are on the island along the coast of Venezuela. The fake autonomy is overruled by Dutch… Read more »
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As your article says Baronmaya , it could be a turning point in lowering the reliance on the tourist industry , your paragraph :- ” a country that loses control over its land” etc —– is perfectly true . The key here is don’t be like the Scottish Government who gave away the rights to oil/gas in the North Sea on a “promise of jobs for Scots ” — where are those jobs now ?? No be like Norway just across the NS from Scotland who in 1972 NATIONALISED its off-shore drilling bringing enormous benefits to the Norwegian public even… Read more »
Washington’s trick is always the same: create the crisis, deny responsibility, then blame the victim.