Published on Saturday, July 30, 2011 by Robert Nickel
Aruba is a small island in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela. As a constituent of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba has a strong Dutch influence. The official language is Dutch, but Spanish, English and Portuguese is spoken there. For its size, just 69 square miles, the island has a rather dense population of 103,000 according to the 2009 census...