GRENADA: CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- (3 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Cuban President Fidel Castro received a warm welcome as he arrived in Grenada on Sunday - a clear signal that the two countries are putting a bitter past behind them.
The visit signals Castro's renewed acceptance by his former Caribbean foes and their frustration with U-S economic policies.
As part of his stay, Castro visited the airport site where Cuban construction workers battled American troops during the 1983 U-S invasion of the island.
Hundreds cheered President Castro's arrival in Grenada's capital, St George's.
The Cuban leader stepped off the plane to a thunderous applause.
The welcoming crows waved Grenadian and Cuban flags, banners which read "Long live the ideas of the Cuban Revolution" and even sang a revolutionary hymn in his honour.
The visit to Grenada - a former French and British colony of three islands tucked between Trinidad and St. Vincent - signals Castro's renewed acceptance among former foes in the Caribbean fuelled by their frustration with Washington's economic policies.
A much-touted new era in U-S-Caribbean relations promised at a 1997 summit in Barbados with President Clinton has failed to materialise, along with promised aid and
trade benefits.
Castro was met at the airport by Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, who was once outspoken against the Cuban leader.
Mitchell called the early 1980s - when Cuba and the United States competed for influence on the island - a time of "hatred and divisiveness" and shared Castro's call to put the bitter past behind them.
In welcoming Castro, he pleaded for American cooperation with Cuba and welcomed the warming of Cuban-Caribbean relations.
Mitchell also joined his Caribbean neighbours in supporting Castro's fight to lift tough U-S sanctions against the communist island.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I think we have sent the wake up call a long time ago and I think they must, I think they clearly understand this. I don't know why it's taking so long to understand."
SUPER CAPTION: Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada
Castro's visit to Grenada - the final stop on an unprecedented three-nation Caribbean tour - marks a dramatic turnaround in Caribbean relations with Cuba, once shunned as an
exporter of communist revolution.
But not everyone is welcoming the Cuban leader with open arms.
Opposition politicians and their supporters, who were persecuted and jailed after the 1979 revolution installed the pro-Cuban government of Maurice Bishop, protested against alleged human rights abuses in Cuba.
Former prisoners, like policeman turned fisherman Noel Gordon, say they can't forgive and forget.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"When the revolution came they jailed as much as they put the ...(illegible.) I was one. I spent four and a half years in a prison. This is the time that the revolution lasted.
Q. So Maurice Bishop isn't you favourite leader?
A. Oh no I never supported him."
SUPER CAPTION: Noel Gordon, Fisherman and former Policeman
Grenada is the only place where U-S and Cuban forces fought face-to-face in the Cold War.
U-S troops landed in Grenada in October 1983 after Marxist hard-liners staged a bloody coup against the leftist government that had been supported by Castro.
The hard-liners executed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and his cabinet.
Former President Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion, saying the United States was worried about students at the American School of Medicine at St. George's University.
Armed Cuban construction workers at Grenada's airport fought invading U-S soldiers and a token force of Caribbean troops for three days.
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Long Live Comrade Castro!
He is under The Rock..jajajajja
Long live! Yes!!!
Ahh he’s dead 🤔
@@butt02plug Did he not live long?
@@Freedom-qf5jfHe’s dead!
Thank you, Castro
Viva la revolucion
Jonor y Gloria eternos al Señor Teniente General Don Jorge Rsfael Videla...!!!!!!!
No
this happened in the late 1990s.
TheAto2000 We, the US, liberated Grenada during a 1983 invasion. The surviving Cubans were repatriated.
It wasn't liberated, the island remained under the British eye even after Reagen pulled his strings.
Speaking of Imperialism, Cuba became a vassal of the Soviet Union and then later Venezuela and Communist China
@@consistentharmony the US didn’t “liberate” a damn thing. Educate yourself before you make ignorant comments.
Cuba is a vassal of Imperialistic Soviet Union, Now Communist China. Island of 11 million Castro owned slaves.
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Long live comrade Castro 🇬🇩 🇨🇺
Black have horror in US
Poor, innocent, misguided souls. They're cheering for a murderer, a man who has so much blood on his hands that it could fill a football stadium in Havana. He either personally killed or ordered the execution of those who non-violently opposed him. But this coward chose the easy way out in dealing with his opponents by simply getting rid of them. GOD sees all and Mr. Castro, like the rest of us, will have to give an account of his life. May the Lord have mercy on his evil soul.
You make it seem like any other place around the world will actually take time to give a care in the world for Grenada.
Your first sentence also describes yourself- He's done his share of evil for sure but those two countries share a long history- Cubans built the majority of the airport shown in this video.... he sent doctors and dentists to Grenada for many years to provide free dental and healthcare... they give opportunities for higher education- most people on the island cannot otherwise afford to attend college.... cheering for him is not as misguided and ignorant as your comment.
Randy Bridgeman KJVA Bible. Galatians 6:7
[7]Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. KJVA Bible. Isaiah 14:1-3,21-22
[1]For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
[2]And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
[3]And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
[21]Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
[22]For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
He is a great President of cuba
I am interested to know who your political hero is.
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