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Article: On Grenada.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1984
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Compatriots:
On October 15, 1976, a little over seven years ago, we gathered here, in this same place, to deliver a funeral address for the 57 Cubans who were vilely murdered in the Barbados plane sabotage, carried out by men who had been trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Today we have come once again to bid farewell--this time to 24 Cubans who died in Grenada, another island not very far from Barbados, as a result of U.S. military actions.
Grenada was one of the smallest independent states in the world, both in territory and population. Even though Cuba is a small, underdeveloped country, it was able to help Grenada considerably, because ...