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VIDEOWhile I was on our recent cruise to the Southern Caribbean I picked up a few bottles of Curacao liqueur. In this video I show you how I made a Curacao Blue Margarita using a recipe someone aboard our ship gave me. The result is easily not only the BEST Margarita I ever had but probably the MOST refreshing drink of any kind I ever drank.Recipe:1 can (12 oz) water 1 can Margarita mix 3/4 can Tequila 1/4 to 1/2 can Curacao Blue

Wim (William) Statius Muller is the National Composer of ABC (Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles), now cut off from the rest of the world by Alexandra Venezuela-Cortez's sugar daddy, Nicolas Maduro. Wim was a spymaster, who set up Curacao's intelligence bureau; he worked in Netherlands intelligence during the Cold War. That alone would send Alexandra Venezuela-Cortez' college mobs after him. But as an old white man, Wim is guilty of the supreme crime of Cultural Appropriation. It seems that, from his colonial, Netherlands Antilles upbringing, Wim is an expert composer in the intensely polyrhythmic local music style. And...

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty...

Note: The following news brief is a quote: - In cooperation with various other countries, Dutch authorities have rounded up a big cocaine gang that had links with Hezbollah. Seventeen suspects were arrested on Curacao, the biggest island of the Netherlands Antilles, the Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) has revealed. International cooperation between police and judicial services of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles, Belgium, Colombia, Venezuela and the US led to the arrest of the 17 suspects by the Curacao police. They are believed to be part of a drugs and money-laundering organisation with international branches, thought to be responsible...

The Cuban government conspired with a Curacao ship repair company to provide practically slave labor fixing up vessels, including Miami-based cruise ships, and kept workers under harsh conditions, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District court in Miami alleges. The civil suit filed before Judge James Lawrence King alleges that up to 100 Cuban shipyard workers are forced to work against their will at Curacao Drydock Co., a ship repair company with an agent in Delray Beach, Klattenberg Marine Associates. The suit, filed by three workers who escaped and now live in Florida, alleges they were ordered to work 16-hour shifts...

Could it be that Washington is trying to intimidate Venezuela with large-scale naval maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea? According to this article from Venezuela's Cadena Global, President Hugo Chavez said, 'We aren't afraid of the Paper Empire!,' and 'We are preparing ourselves' for America's attempt to 'enslave us.' During his Sunday "Hello President [Alo Presidente]" program, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintained that the purpose of the American military presence in the Caribbean is to "intimidate" his Government, and he warned that the "Bolivarian Revolution isn't afraid of the Empire." Chavez also announced that he would push forward a legal reform...