Tennessee Slim
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Blockage against sale of autonomy
The protestors in the picture are still pretty calm and they follow the instructions of the police and SKS. But this was no longer the case later that morning. With big boulders, the protestors blocked the roads to the Marriott.
WILLEMSTAD For a little while it looked like the protest was going to get out of hand, when an officer of the Zero Tolerance-team reached for his duty-weapon. The angry crowd of about 200 protestors in front of the Marriott hotel didnt have access to the premises a while ago. The political steering committee with delegations form Curaçao, St. Maarten, and the Netherlands were conferencing about the progress of the political renewal. The tension that built up before 08:00 already, and sometimes in pouring rain, burst out two hours later.
Big boulders, usually used to mark out the road, were thrown on the street and so blocked the arriving- and departing traffic. On the other side near the WTC, the cars were parked criss-crossed on the road, on which the protestors have also thrown boulders. According to the police that posted themselves at the entrance of the Marriott, the protestors were shouting angrily, protesting in general,. All the yelling and screaming was against the process regarding the political structure.
The protestors consider the final declaration a total curtailment of the intended autonomous status. Since the final declaration was approved in July of this year, the current administrators are only busy admitting its further erosion. It is a structural Antilles of Six, in which Curacao is stuck again with the smaller islands, was repeatedly shouted. But others went even further this morning. We do no longer want those Dutch colonialists. I came back after having lived for 20 years in the Netherlands and all I see around here are people from the Netherlands.
The protestors were a very mixed group; from old to young, and they were primarily coloured people from Curacao, who say that they get enraged at especially the arrogant makambas that do not respect the local culture and traditions and they look down at the local people. And there is only one solution for the in their eyes soft government of Prime Minister Emily de Jongh-Elhage (PAR): the confrontation, because it appears that the rigid Netherlands cannot be shaken-up. The protestors fulminated and yelled so loud until there voices were hoarse.
Amigoe.com
The protestors in the picture are still pretty calm and they follow the instructions of the police and SKS. But this was no longer the case later that morning. With big boulders, the protestors blocked the roads to the Marriott.
WILLEMSTAD For a little while it looked like the protest was going to get out of hand, when an officer of the Zero Tolerance-team reached for his duty-weapon. The angry crowd of about 200 protestors in front of the Marriott hotel didnt have access to the premises a while ago. The political steering committee with delegations form Curaçao, St. Maarten, and the Netherlands were conferencing about the progress of the political renewal. The tension that built up before 08:00 already, and sometimes in pouring rain, burst out two hours later.
Big boulders, usually used to mark out the road, were thrown on the street and so blocked the arriving- and departing traffic. On the other side near the WTC, the cars were parked criss-crossed on the road, on which the protestors have also thrown boulders. According to the police that posted themselves at the entrance of the Marriott, the protestors were shouting angrily, protesting in general,. All the yelling and screaming was against the process regarding the political structure.
The protestors consider the final declaration a total curtailment of the intended autonomous status. Since the final declaration was approved in July of this year, the current administrators are only busy admitting its further erosion. It is a structural Antilles of Six, in which Curacao is stuck again with the smaller islands, was repeatedly shouted. But others went even further this morning. We do no longer want those Dutch colonialists. I came back after having lived for 20 years in the Netherlands and all I see around here are people from the Netherlands.
The protestors were a very mixed group; from old to young, and they were primarily coloured people from Curacao, who say that they get enraged at especially the arrogant makambas that do not respect the local culture and traditions and they look down at the local people. And there is only one solution for the in their eyes soft government of Prime Minister Emily de Jongh-Elhage (PAR): the confrontation, because it appears that the rigid Netherlands cannot be shaken-up. The protestors fulminated and yelled so loud until there voices were hoarse.
Amigoe.com
