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Over the phone, the most famous writer of the Netherlands Antilles said to meet him at the bar on the roof of the Otra Banda Hotel, overlooking Willemstad’s coast and its Luis Brion Plaza, the town square with a statue dedicated to Admiral Brion, an admiral in Bolivar’s military who was born and died on the island of Curaçao.

A quote from Simon Bolivar is emblazoned below the feet of Brion: ‘In so far as I am capable, I shall send monuments to Brion to the remotest corners of posterity.’ There is a possible undertone of irony, not understood by local pilgrims to the shrine, in Bolivar’s statement: Brion eventually was among the many who betrayed the Liberator of Venezuela and the founder of the dream of a Greater Colombia; those remotest corners of posterity Bolivar envisioned for his turncoat general’s monuments might have been deep under the sea.

The shadow cast by the looming statue grew longer upon the cobblestones of