Grenada-Soviet Union relations

Grenada-Soviet relations refers to the relations between Grenada, and the Soviet Union (now Russia). The two countries had relations during the New Jewel Movement.

Under New Jewel Movement

On October 1983 the Soviet Union tried to make the island of Grenada function as a Soviet base, and also by getting supplies from Cuba. U.S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean. In November, a joint hearing of Congressional Subcommitese, it was told that Grenada could be used as a staging area for subversion of the nearby countries, for intersection of shipping lanes, and for the transit of troops and supplies from Cuba to Africa, and from Eastern Europe and Libya to Central America. In order to provide the politicians with expert academic advice, Professor Jaime Suchliki from the Institute of Miami was invited to make a statement and written report. In the statement, there was thirty-three references to Cuba and the Soviet Union. Grenada was mentioned only once. In December, the State Department published a preliminary report on Grenada, in which was claimed as an "Island of Soviet Internationalism". Some American students that studied the island, thought that the island perceived "Soviet threat". Later when the US marines landed on the island, they discovered seventeen tons of documents, which included agreements between the Soviet Government, and the New Jewel Movement, recorded minutes of the Committee meetings, and reports from the Grenadian embassy in Moscow. The documents were compared to the ones found in Smolensk during World War II. Sally Shelton, former US ambassador to the Caribbean considered them to be a political relations bonanza for the US government.

ee also

*Grenada-Russia relations

External links

* [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2617710 The Soviet Union and Grenada, under the New Jewel Movement]