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"May 1967 in Guadeloupe, investigation into a forgotten massacre" on January 15, 2014 in 50 years of news stories on 13th street and on Planète+ Justice . "May 1967, Police repression in Guadeloupe" broadcast by Fabrice Desplan, France Ô . "May 67 – Don't shoot the children of the republic" by Mike Horn, 2017, France Ô .
An independence movement grew in the 1970s, prompting France to declare Guadeloupe a French region in 1974. [4] The Union populaire pour la libération de la Guadeloupe (UPLG) campaigned for complete independence, and by the 1980s the situation had turned violent with the actions of groups such as Groupe de libération armée [ es ; fr ] (GLA ...
The Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance (French: Alliance révolutionnaire caraïbe) was a militant autonomist organization active in the Caribbean-located overseas department of Guadeloupe in the 1980s. The group demanded the independence of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. [1]
Many islands have attained independence from colonial powers and sovereignty; others have formal political ties with major powers, including the United States. The early economic structure integrating the Caribbean into the Atlantic world and world economic system continues to impact the modern Caribbean region.
Proposed: Independence for Curaçao [64] Political parties: Movement for the Future of Curaçao, [65] Sovereign People [66] Referendums: 1993 and 2005; Aruba. Proposed: Independence for Aruba. Political party: People's Electoral Movement (Aruba) [67] [68] Referendum: 1977; Sint Maarten. Proposed: Independence, autonomy or unification with Saint ...
Theodore Roosevelt, who had fought in the Spanish–American War and had some sympathies with the independence movement granted the Republic of Cuba formal independence on May 20, 1902, with the independence leader Tomás Estrada Palma becoming the country's first president. Under the new Cuban constitution, however, the U.S. retained the right ...
The People's Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (French: Union populaire pour la libération de la Guadeloupe, UPLG) is a far-left political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. The UPLG advocates for the independence of the Guadeloupe from France.
The Invasion of Guadeloupe was a British attempt in 1794 to take and hold the island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars.The British had negotiated with the French planters, Ignace-Joseph-Philippe de Perpignan and Louis de Curt, who wished to gain British protection, as France's National Convention was passing a law abolishing slavery on 4 February 1794.