The Cuban Yoke

The ex-British Caribbean island of Grenada continues to be Castro’s favorite colony. There are now over five thousand Cubans on the island, led by “Ambassador” Julian Rizo, with Russian “cruise” ships off-loading arms and material for their base; the jet airstrip is being raced to conclusion, with shifts of Cuban operators working through the night.

The familiar pattern of Communist colonization proceeds apace. Radio Free Grenada—the semantic is Orwellian— is a weird mixture of sleepy cricket commentary (the English team is touring the West Indies) and news of Zimbabwe, Namibia, and other places unheard of by the average farmer or fisherman on the island. When the Hotel Association complained that tourism was being ruined by official anti-Americanism it was met with blank stares: this was what the book says you put out in a Communist revolution, and they weren’t going to stop singing Castro’s song— “Semper Fidel.” Units of Grenada’s rag-tag-and-bobtail People’s Revolutionary Army have been sent to Angola and El Salvador where they have suffered heavy casualties (locally reported as deserters —the desertion rate on the island itself sometimes rising to a hundred a week).

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The ex-British Caribbean island of Grenada continues to be Castro’s favorite colony. There are now over five thousand Cubans on the island, led by “Ambassador” Julian Rizo, with Russian “cruise” ships off-loading arms and material for their base; the jet airstrip is being raced to conclusion, with shifts of Cuban operators working through the night.

The familiar pattern of Communist colonization proceeds apace. Radio Free Grenada—the semantic is Orwellian— is a weird mixture of sleepy cricket commentary (the English team is touring the West Indies) and news of Zimbabwe, Namibia, and other places unheard of by the average farmer or fisherman on the island. When the Hotel Association complained that tourism was being ruined by official anti-Americanism it was met with blank stares: this was what the book says you put out in a Communist revolution, and they weren’t going to stop singing Castro’s song— “Semper Fidel.” Units of Grenada’s rag-tag-and-bobtail People’s Revolutionary Army have been sent to Angola and El Salvador where they have suffered heavy casualties (locally reported as deserters —the desertion rate on the island itself sometimes rising to a hundred a week).