WILLEMSTAD With its remote beaches, tourist traffic and ties to Europe, this palm-fringed Dutch corner of the Caribbean is a paradise, for drug traffickers.

The trade has brought a new surge of violence as cartels from nearby Colombia move in to ship cocaine to Europe, mainly to Netherlands.

"These organizations are moving and they're moving along with their violence, their ways of enforcing the business," said Waldo Santiago, spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the Caribbean.

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