West Indies Cricket Fans

"On 25 October 1983, Ronald Reagan sent 8,000 members of the US Armed Forces to invade Grenada, an island with a population of just over 100,000 people, in an operation which he named ‘American Fury’. It is an operation he had been planning ever since the bloodless revolution of 1979 had displaced the US-anointed tyrannical Prime Minister, Eric Gairy ... "

Forward Ever: The Killing of A Revolution (click for more)

" But something else was happening within the ‘Revo’s’ central structures that contradicted and attacked this democratic narrative. I can only describe this as a ‘commandist’ and over-centralist authoritarian strain that was completely contrary to the popular-democratic impulses and structures within the Revolution’s fabric "

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This could also be said of the Hunte, Hilarie and Beckles era at the WICB.

" The Grenada Revolution… was a process that the people owned and guarded jealously."......." They were not passively waiting to be done unto, if not done for, once they had cast their votes ".

Channeling, limiting or eliminating the raw emotional energy that makes a revolution successful involves meticulous planning and preparation, a luxury Grenada could not afford.

There are still many lessons to be learned from these events, I await it's rescreening with anticipation.