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The People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) was the military of Grenada between 1979 and 1983. The People's Revolutionary Militia served as its reserve force. The two, alongside the Grenada Police and the Coast Guard, were collectively termed as the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (PRAF) from 1981.
Cuba supplied weapons to the new Grenadian regime and sent advisors to form the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada. In June 1979, a cooperation agreement between the two countries was concluded, providing for assistance from Cuba to developments in Grenada's health sector and infrastructure.
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and black liberation.
In January 1974, Coard returned to Grenada which was then in the midst of a popular uprising against the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy. [11] Coard became active in Grenadian politics. He joined the New Jewel Movement (NJM), the left-wing organization co-founded by his childhood friend Maurice Bishop .
US Army Rangers parachute into Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury. A U.S.–Caribbean led force invaded Grenada on 25 October 1983, in an action called Operation Urgent Fury, and swiftly defeated the Grenadian forces and their Cuban allies. [33] During the fighting 45 Grenadians, 25 Cubans, and 19 Americans were killed.
The Grenada 17 always maintained that they could not be held responsible for the murders. The accused who were in positions of authority in government and the army claim to have given no orders for the executions. Callistus Bernard, the private who admits to organizing the firing squad and having shot Bishop, states that he "lost it".
Despite resistance from Grenadian armed forces (PRA - People's Revolutionary Army) and armed Cuban construction workers, the Rangers secured all of their objectives on the airfield quickly. The seizure of the airfield allowed United States Air Force C-141 transport planes to land, beginning at 2:05 P.M., and unload six battalions of ...