Curacao Looks Back at Venezuela’s Oil

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Henry Veeris points out the house by the sea where he was born in 1938. He has clear eyes, a Spaniard learned from Dutch and the memory of sleeping with the windows covered while German submarines stalked oil tankers in Curacao waters. “This street, look. Here I lived,” he says. Veeris was a pilot and is still a tourist operator. At 88 he is an oral chronicler with a prodigious memory: he tells the island by pointing out houses, ports and every …