[ noun ] a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles <noun.location>
Abello testified that he attended the meeting in Aruba, but said he stormed out of the room when the conversation turned to drugs.
He said he then made a series of phone calls to drug partners in Florida and Aruba in which Abello allegedly got involved in the conspiracy.
Its next port of call, after Galveston, was scheduled to be Aruba.
The calls resulted in a February 1987 meeting in Aruba, off Venezuela's coast, between Abello and several others.
When Algrett traveled to Aruba to meet with a U.S. agent, he was arrested by Aruban authorities and put on a plane for Miami, where he was arrested by the FBI.