Should I draw you a map to Venezuela? If the richest Nation in the area is facing an engineered famine why would the Nations close by that are poor nor feel some of the IMF imposed sanctions?
You do know the 3 Islands that are still part of the Netherlands are probably Jews rather than the RCC is their religion. Want me to verify that?? Of course you do.
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/reference/factbook/geos/nt.html
Nationality:

noun: Dutch Antillean(s)
adjective: Dutch Antillean
Ethnic groups:

mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian)
Religions:

Roman Catholic 72%, Pentecostal 4.9%, Protestant 3.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.1%, Methodist 2.9%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.7%, other Christian 4.2%, Jewish 1.3%, other or unspecified 1.2%, none 5.2% (2001 census)
Languages:

Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean
The islands in the Dutch Caribbean were from 1815 on part of the colonies
Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828) or
Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815-1828), which were merged with
colony of Suriname (not considered part of the Dutch Caribbean, although it was on the southern Caribbean in Northeastern
South America) and governed from Paramaribo until 1845, when all island became part of colony again called Curaçao and Dependencies.
In 1954, the islands became the
country (Dutch:
Land)
Netherlands Antilles (1954−2010). The autonomy of the Netherlands Antilles' island territories was specified in the
Islands Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles. Initially the Netherlands Antilles consisted of 4 island territories: Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and the Windward Islands. The latter split into the Island Territories Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten in 1983.
The island of Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 to become a separate constituent country of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, leaving five island territories within the Netherlands Antilles. This situation remained until the complete
dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles as a unified political entity in 2010. In that year Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous constituent countries within the Kingdom (like Aruba); while Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba became
special municipalities of the
Netherlands proper, which is the constituent country that is mainly located in Europe.
I'm pretty sure the old ties are as strong as ever.
Central America was about Company Farms, that is why the 'Greater Israel' map covers the water shed area of the local rivers. Controlling the food is a lot bigger club than oil. That is how an oil rich country can be starved into submission. When the IMF moves in food production increases but it is all marked for export. When they are kicked out the food imports stop and local production has been ruined so they can no longer feed themselves. That might seem 'slick' to you, I see it under a few different labels that are not flattering at all.