Nelson Navarro

Navarro was born in 1949 and went to high school in Curaçao. In 1976 he earned a degree in Dutch law at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. He returned to Curaçao the same year to work as a paralegal at the Central Bureau of Judicial and General Affairs. Three years later he moved once again to the Netherlands to work as a civil servant at the tax service and to study about customs and tariffs. Once he finished the course he went to work at the Central Bureau of Judicial and General Affairs in Curaçao again. He became deputy-head of the organisation in 1982. He held this position until 1987. In 1987 he became a lawyer, and from that year until 2006 he worked at several law firms. ==Political career==

In 2006 Navarro was one of the co-founders of the political party Forsa Kòrsou. Navarro himself obtained a seat in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles the same year. In September 2013 Navarro offered his resignation to the Estates of Curaçao after a suspect in the murder investigation around Helmin Wiels killed himself in a police cell complex located in Barber, Curaçao. The suspect had days before been relocated from the highly guarded Marinekazerne Suffisant. After giving an explanation to the Estates Navarro retained his position. In March 2014 Navarro spoke with Dutch justice minister Ivo Opstelten regarding Dutch help to fight crime on Curaçao. The Koninklijke Marechaussee later that year sent 10 detectives. Early in 2016 Navarro came into conflict with some union members of the Curaçao members of Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard after he made statements that some members of the coast guard were criminals. In June 2016 it was revealed that Navarro on 8 February 2015 had drunk coffee with rat poison in it while being at the government building Fort Amsterdam. The amount of poison was not enough to be lethal. Earlier notices reported that Navarro was to be assassinated by Venezuelan hitmen while attending a carnaval parade. Navarro was warned and did not attend the parade. Navarro was replaced by Ornelio Martina in the Hensley Koeiman cabinet which was installed on 23 December 2016. ==Personal life==

Navarro is married and has five children. ==References==