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Grenada

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State changes

  1. 1974 Independent ofUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom

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Maurice Bishop

Grenada state institutions Marxism–Leninism Grenada Grenada 1944–1983 ✕ Executed

The Caribbean revolutionary who cut illiteracy from 35% to 5% and declared 'we are not in anybody's backyard'

“We are not in anybody's backyard, and we are definitely not for sale.” — Hunter College, New York, August 1983

Grenadian revolutionary and Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government (1979–1983). After studying law in London, he returned to lead the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), toppling the corrupt Gairy regime in 1979. In power, he reduced illiteracy from 35% to 5%, unemployment from 50% to 14%, and introduced free healthcare, equal pay, and paid maternity leave. He built an international airport with Cuban cooperation and held fast to an anti-imperialist line: 'We are not in anybody's backyard, and we are definitely not for sale.' Executed in a 1983 internal coup by Deputy PM Bernard Coard, his death triggered the US invasion of Grenada.

Career timeline
  • 1944Born on Aruba, then a Dutch colony
  • 1963–1969Studied law in London; called to the Bar at Gray's Inn
  • 1970Returned to Grenada; gained fame defending striking nurses
  • 1973Co-founded the New JEWEL Movement (NJM); Joint Coordinating Secretary
  • 1973–1974'Bloody Sunday' arrest and beating; father shot dead on 'Bloody Monday'
  • 1976–1979Leader of the Opposition against Gairy's dictatorship
  • 1979.03Revolution deposed Gairy; became Prime Minister of the PRG
  • 1979–1983Slashed illiteracy and unemployment; free healthcare, women's rights; built airport with Cuba
  • 1983.10.19Arrested and executed by firing squad in Bernard Coard's coup

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Henri Christophe

National liberation and anti-colonial movements Haiti Grenada 1767–1820 ✕ Died by suicide

Revolutionary general who burned Cap-Français and held the north, then president of the State of Haiti and King Henry I

Born in 1767 in the British Caribbean, in Grenada or perhaps Saint Kitts, he was brought as a slave to the north of Saint-Domingue. From the rising of 1791 he fought under Toussaint Louverture, becoming commander at Cap-Français and brigadier general by 1801. When Leclerc's expedition arrived in February 1802 he burned Cap-Français as ordered, submitted in April and rejoined Dessalines in October. After Dessalines' assassination he was elected president of the State of Haiti in February 1807 and in March 1811 proclaimed a kingdom, reigning as Henry I. He built the Citadelle Laferrière and the Sans-Souci Palace and drew sugar revenues from corvée labour, but lost popular support, and on 8 October 1820, ill and fearing a coup, he shot himself.

Career timeline
  • 1791Joined the rising of the North
  • 1794–1802Officer under Toussaint Louverture, commander at Cap-Français
  • 1802–1803Commander in the war of independence under Dessalines
  • 1807–1811President of the State of Haiti
  • 1811–1820King Henry I of Haiti

Maurice Bishop

Grenada state institutions Marxism–Leninism Grenada Grenada 1944–1983 ✕ Executed

The Caribbean revolutionary who cut illiteracy from 35% to 5% and declared 'we are not in anybody's backyard'

“We are not in anybody's backyard, and we are definitely not for sale.” — Hunter College, New York, August 1983

Grenadian revolutionary and Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government (1979–1983). After studying law in London, he returned to lead the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), toppling the corrupt Gairy regime in 1979. In power, he reduced illiteracy from 35% to 5%, unemployment from 50% to 14%, and introduced free healthcare, equal pay, and paid maternity leave. He built an international airport with Cuban cooperation and held fast to an anti-imperialist line: 'We are not in anybody's backyard, and we are definitely not for sale.' Executed in a 1983 internal coup by Deputy PM Bernard Coard, his death triggered the US invasion of Grenada.

Career timeline
  • 1944Born on Aruba, then a Dutch colony
  • 1963–1969Studied law in London; called to the Bar at Gray's Inn
  • 1970Returned to Grenada; gained fame defending striking nurses
  • 1973Co-founded the New JEWEL Movement (NJM); Joint Coordinating Secretary
  • 1973–1974'Bloody Sunday' arrest and beating; father shot dead on 'Bloody Monday'
  • 1976–1979Leader of the Opposition against Gairy's dictatorship
  • 1979.03Revolution deposed Gairy; became Prime Minister of the PRG
  • 1979–1983Slashed illiteracy and unemployment; free healthcare, women's rights; built airport with Cuba
  • 1983.10.19Arrested and executed by firing squad in Bernard Coard's coup