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Aruba: Key Historical Dates and Events

1994 - At a convention in The Hague, the governments of Aruba, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles post-
pone indefinitely Aruba’s transition to full independence.
1996 - Aruba is included on US list of major drug-producing or transit countries.
2000 - Aruba is named as one of 35 “non-cooperative tax havens” by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). It is later removed from the list having promised greater openness.
2003 - Aruba, US agree to exchange tax data to help combat money-laundering.
2009 October - Mike Eman becomes Prime Minister after his Aruba People’s Party wins a parliamentary majority,
ousting the People’s Electoral Movement government of Nelson Orlando October.