PRESIDENT REAGAN has now settled on the pretext that the invasion force arrived in Grenada 'just in time' before Cuba took over the island and turned it into an armed outpost.
the Cuban Communist Party and revolutionary government on the events in Grenada, Reagan's slanders in the words of the themselves.
Havana 20 October CAN be seen clearly sone weeks. maybe months, procontiict has OCCI developing in the leadership and within the governing party of Grenada.
Fidel Castro On 12 our Embassy in intormca us or lne surprising unpleasant about the profound divisions within the Central Committee of the Grenadian Party. On the morning of the day, Mr. Bishop humself communicated OuT Embassy the differences which had been surfacing for some time which were being discussed and attempts to resolve them, but he had never imagined the that would arise during his (Bishop had just relurned Eastern Europe and had briefly stopped over in Cuba ees)
We continuously received Embassy in Grenada durIng regarding the positions of sides LWU the conflict. In our opiface hectics ts were infact conflicts personalities and conceptions leadership methods, bere subjective factors rere also present, rather han internal conflicts... le Fidel Caster sent a IS October. com. rade nessage to the New Jewel Party Central Committee elling of Cuba's stand, stuch is ruled by the principle of abstaining Irom nierfering in the party's and country's internal affairs..
In that message it was expressed that Cuba's Below we reproduce extracts from statements of which rebut Cubans commitment would be ment to the Grenadian regardless changes in the leadership of the Party and in the country, since these were vulcy lute la WlalEcs..
On 19 October in the early hours of the morning we began to receive news that the workers had gone on strike and that the people were on the streets in support of Bishop. Multitudes of people arrived at his home where they freed him from house arICOL. would although the news is not inat an army in stallation was occupied by the people...
During the afternoon the dramatic outcome was made known, an official collulu us announced the deaths of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop the other NJM leaders eds). It is to be regretted that the divisions between the Grenadian in this bloody drama.
No doctrine, no princiPiself revolutionary, no opinion calling no internal split can justify such atrocious acts as the physical elimination of Bishop and the prominent signified leaders who died honest yesterday.
The death of Bishop and his comrades must be explained and if they were executedl cold blood, those responsible must be punished as an example.
Now imperialism will attempt to use this tragedy and the grave errors committed by the Grenadian revolutionaries to wipe out the revolutionary process in Grenada and subject her once again to imperialist neo-colonialist dominance...
Havana 25 October The Cuban revolutionary covenment reports that the Cuban Embassy in St Georges has reported that at dawn today US balaLOUCS began land in the area of the new Grenadian airport, which is still under construction. The landings were a short distance from the hostels where Cuban workers are living. The workers had instructions nemselves they were attacked...
Havana 2o Melober declaration of the Cuban Communist Party and governest readidel of State Fide Castro at 1 a.m. press conference speaks of the 'unjustified, criminal, perfidious imperialist attack' eastern Caribbean by a US air and naval connell, and some members of the al Ills of Jamaica, St. Lucia and Barbados.
He said that the Grenadian authorities, faced with the threat of invasion, requested Cuban collaboration, a request that was not easy to grant after the things that had happened in that country.
Castro said that the option of immediate evacua. tion of Cuban personel at a time in which US warships were approaching 'could have proven to be highly aemoransing dishonourable for our country the eyes of world opinion.
The declaration adds that the Grenadian leaders were informed that the CIVlllan cooperators were very sman lore to be recaded as a factor of military imlargescale US invasion, while the possibility of sending reinforcements was 'impossible and unthinkable' The Cuban president stated that in a message to the Grenadian authorities, Cuba said that 'the Grenadian revolutionaries aL C the only ones to blame for having created this undifficult situation for the revoluLolar y process the military spheres.' The public is informed the at 6a.0 a moass do in the Cuban ambassador Fidel's note to the United States was lcdu Cuban personnel and the comrades replled that, worthy heirs of our people's traditions that following the example of Commander Chief, we will fight to the last man and the last shot our moral high: Motherland or Death! Will overcome!' (These extracts are taken telexes the Prensa Latina Agency in Havana. The translation is Resource Centrea Britain-Cuba Grenadian unionists on the march Grenada Cobnieat