HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Grenada's Political Evolution[4]
Grenada, discovered by Columbus in 1498, is a tiny Caribbean island of 334 square km with a population of approximately 100,000 inhabitants. In the 18th century, as a British colony, the rulers imported large numbers of slaves from Africa to work the sugar plantations. In March 1967, the island became a self-governing state in association with the United Kingdom and, later that year, Eric Gairy and his party were elected to power. Grenada eventually became an independent nation in 1974. Through the 1970
, opposition to Gairy's erratic and repressive rule mounted, as economic conditions deteriorated. A coalition called the Grenada New Jewel Movement (NJM), along with
other opposition parties, succeeded in reducing Gairy's majority in Parliament in the
1976 election.

While Gairy was out of the country in 1979, the NJM staged a bloodless coup, proclaimed a People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), and named their......

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