May it please Your Majesty

I have the sinking feeling that Your ministers are not giving You the facts about one or two of Your possessions beyond the seas which, as the weeks tick by, take on the aspect of so many kegs of gunpowder.

And it would be most unfortunate if those possessions were to be in the centre of a conflagration. We all know, Your Majesty, what happens to kegs of gunpowder in conflagrations.


The reason for a possible conflagration is the increasing political and military pressure Washington is piling on the elected government of Venezuela from Your island of Curacao.

Your Majesty will recall some politicians in the US capital happily supported the Iraq invasion and slaughter not to mention the brief toppling of the democratically elected leader of Venezuela in 2002 by a right-wing businessman who closed the Congress and sacked the judges. Ridiculous as it seems, these politicians are now trying to have the Venezuelan government labelled an