Amsterdam and Paris are exactly the same distance from the States. It'll make sense with a globe - Mercator projection on most standard maps really distorts the closest straight-line distance, and the shortest straight-line distance here appears on Mercator-projected maps as an upward-sweeping arc.
Port of Spain, located as it is on the island of Trinidad, is geographically in S America and closer to the States than most of the other S American answers.