Havana, Cuba, CMC – On the fortieth anniversary of the Grenada invasion and to honor the reminiscence of Grenadian chief Maurice Bishop and the 24 Cuban fighters who fell, a tribute was held on the headquarters of the Caribbean Affiliation of Cuba on Wednesday.
The ceremony was attended by members of the Caribbean and African diplomatic corps accredited to Cuba, representatives of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, and a gaggle of Cuban help employees who had been in Grenada when the U.S. invasion befell on October 25, 1983.
Gastón Rodríguez, then Cuban ambassador to Grenada, recalled the cooperation tasks promoted by the revolutionary course of in Grenada and finally thwarted by the intervention—reminiscent of the development of the Worldwide Airport the place Cuban employees had been employed—and fixed makes an attempt to stop Grenada from turning into an instance, together with the assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and a part of his cupboard on October 19 on the eve of the assault.
“Nevertheless, the dream didn’t die with the tip of the Grenadian Revolution on October 25, however thrives at the moment with an more and more united Caribbean, impressed by these occasions to face as much as the oppressors,” he mentioned.
For his half, Grenadian Ambassador Glen Benedict Noel denounced the U.S. blockade of and sanctions towards Cuba, which he described as immoral and unjustifiable, and harassed that the invasion dealt a harsh blow to the left and dashed the hopes of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide “the results of which we nonetheless really feel at the moment.”
“No surprise,” he identified, “that Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz known as it an amazing Revolution in a small nation. (…) Lengthy reside the spirits of Maurice Bishop and the heroes who gave their lives for the liberty of Grenada! Lengthy reside the reminiscence of the fallen!”
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