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Tropical Divisions

Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The fifth and final post, Last Dispatch from a Disintegrating Nation, starts below and continues here. Alex, when not traveling and writing, is a Senior Editor over at EuroCheapo.com. Take it away, Alex:

A dramatic title of my last entry on Bonaire and Curaçao, the southern two islands in the soon-to-disintegrate Netherlands Antilles fivesome, exaggerates the situation a touch. In fact, the Netherlands Antilles is both relatively well off and stable--in global terms--so "disintegration" shouldn't imply collapse or disaster. Nonetheless, the Netherlands Antilles, a nation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, will soon fall apart.

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