It's time for Aruba to act on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway

November 25, 9:07 AMProgressive Politics ExaminerKaren Harper

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Since the disappearance of high school senior Natalee Holloway in 2005, tourism in Aruba is down.  It's hardly surprising.

We may not like the sensationalist nature of news reports following the Holloway case, after all, it reads like tabloid shenanigans.  The latest ramblings of the main suspect in Holloway's disappearance, Joran van der Sloot involves sex trafficking in Thailand.

Joran van der Sloot has told so many different stories about what happened to Natalle the night she went missing that anything that comes out of his mouth is suspect.  Joran van der Sloot is the son of a prominent judge and many Americans have come to suspect that if you are the son of a prominent judge in Aruba, you can get away with murder.

Whether you feel Aruba has gotten a bad rap in the media and has been unfairly targeted with boycotts from Americans, the bottom line is that you can be an American citizen visiting Aruba, be kidnapped and disappear or be murdered without recourse.  

But van der Sloot, now living in Thailand may end up in a Thai prison.  Thai authorities have asked for copies of a videotape in which van der Sloot approaches sex workers in Bangkok offering them work.