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Prelude to an Intervention: Grenada 1983

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1997

GARY WILLIAMS
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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Abstract

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This article examines the demise of the Grenadian People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) in the summer of 1983 and the internal power struggle that destroyed the PRG in October that year, culminating in the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. A detailed analysis of events and interactions between Grenada, Barbados and the United States in the week prior to the crisis period of 19–25 October is provided. I conclude that this pre-crisis period established the foundations for, and direction of, subsequent decision-making and explains why a military intervention solution was chosen and subsequently occurred only five days after Bishop's death.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press