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The Execution of Maurice Bishop

Back in the day on October 19th, 1983, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada was executed in a coup d’état. Political instability on the Caribbean island had been brewing as days before Bishop had been placed under house arrest by members of his own New Jewel Movement Party. Popular support for the charismatic Prime Minister manifested in massive protests calling for his immediate release. Once Bishop was freed, he led marchers to a military fort where he believed army loyalists were being detained. Troops fired on the crowd as dozens of demonstrators were slain. Bishop alongside two other cabinet ministers were taken into custody where he was executed. The coup was fortified and brought Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard to power. Reasons as to why infighting within the NJM culminated in such a power struggle vary with some placing the blame on an ideological leftist rift in the party. Others place it solely on the compulsive psychology of Coard.

Whatever the reason, the coup was used as a pretext by the United States to carry out an invasion of the island that it had been planning since at least 1981.

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