- as is evidenced by the bloody manner which concealed disagreements finalcrabic mio we killing or Dislop.
The most decisive changes however ame in the field of foreign policy as ree Grenada began to make its own iends in a process Bishop termed lisengagement from imperialism'. As non-aligned nation Cuba became the ain ally. As the US refused to give aid ad blocked aid elsewhere, the Soviet Decame a crucial source conomic assistance.
Reagan was enraged. The new airort, crucial to tourist developiuell, as debased ret in Cree base. Ine real gains or the evolution were attacked. стосгасу under development In the face of eagan's hostility and the nature of the conomy, distorted by centuries of exbitation, reliant on nutmeg, cocoa ad bananas, Grenadian economic covery was nothing short draculous. Growth last year was five er cent, a rate unheard of in the Cariban, far outstripping the stagnation ipping the economies of the major estern capitalist countries. Even the ternational Monetary Fund was forcI to take notice.
Here was the real threat to imerialism — not a military threat, but a treat by example. The example of the rogress a people can make when they themselves imperialist omination and begin to determine eir own future.
The process started on 13 March 19, the process of socialist revolution ms to have been at least temporarily rought to halt by imperialist unter-revolution. The United States ends to establish a puppet regime subjects Grenadian people again to oppression.
Socialists throughout the t rally to the defence of the Grenarevolution so that cries of 'ForEver, Backward Never' may once They are also terrified by the victories of the national liberation movements in Africa, in Asia, in the Middle East, and right here in Latin America. They have looked around and they see that today the struggles of the people of the region are look at El Salvador and they recognise that while yesterday it was Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada tomorrow it will undoubtedly be El Salvador.
more than $142 billion on arms. the same time, the invasions which shaping now to create new doctrines, to plan new manoeuvres, to obtain new bases to strengthen and deepen their military presence in the hope that this will crush the rising wave of national liberation consciousness that is sweeping our region and the world. Nicaragua, in Colombia, in the Dominican Republic, in Haiti, in Honduras, all or tnese invasions they are now preparing once again to embark on a new campaign of terror region direct intervention, sometimes they rely more on control and force, on the techniques of destabilisation, on the use of diplomatic pressure, on the use of propaganda destabilisation. on ibe policy of economic isolation. 5=. = от.
In 1954, they succeeded in In 1973, they succeeded in the one lesson that they have never Giron right here in revolutionary Cuba! And at the same time, as usual, the threats against revolutionary Cuba, the continuation of the criminal economic blockade against revolutionary Cuba, the creation of artificial crisis after artificial crisis.
First the question of the Soviet troops in October last year, and now the question of so-called refugees at this point in time. All of this is part and parcel of the imperialist campaign to try to defame the Cuban revolution, to try to isolate the Cuban people, to try to lay the basis for an armed invasion or other form of intervention of your beloved country. But in Grenada we have been using a slogan and that slogan has been of Puerto Rico. We today insist that all of the people of the region in the 25 colonial countries which still exist English, Dutch, French, the American territories — we demand the right to independence for the peoples of those countries. We demand that a principle of ideological pluralism musi be respected and practiced by imperialist powers.
We must have the right to build our processes in our own way, free from outside interference, free from all forms of threats or attempts to force us to accept other peoples' processes.
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