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The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) invaded the small island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela, at dawn on 25 October 1983.
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In October 1983, the United States led an invasion of Grenada, code named Urgent Fury, after the overthrow and murder of the leader of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, by the Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. The U.S. Government upgraded its representative office in Grenada to an embassy in February 1984.
The Caribbean peacekeepers were not involved in combat, which officially ended on Nov. 2, 1983. U.S. combat troops left the island on Dec. 12, 1983. The peacekeeping force remained on Grenada until the spring of 1985 to allow the reconstituted domestic police force to be fully trained and equipped.
1983: Grenada: Operation Urgent Fury, citing the increased threat of Soviet and Cuban influence and noting the development of an international airport following a coup d'état and alignment with the Soviet Union and Cuba, the U.S. invades the island nation of Grenada.
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Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1974 under Sir Eric Gairy. [2] He claimed victory in the general election of 1976 , but the opposition did not accept the claim. [ 3 ] On 13 March 1979, the New Jewel Movement led an armed revolution and overthrew Gairy’s government while he was out of the country, establishing the People ...
Three escaped inmates from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada were charged in the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked, police said Thursday. Ron Mitchell, a 30-year-old ...