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The Reagan administration set itself the not inconsiderable challenge of making Grenada a showcase for what the United States could do in terms of promoting democracy. The majority of US troops were quick to leave and by mid-November an Interim Advisory Council, named by Governor General Scoon, was established. Washington pumped a substantial amount of aid into the island; in 1984 Grenada received $57 million but this halved in 1985 and by 1986 Grenada received $15 million, the same as its Eastern Caribbean neighbors.1 Ironically it was US money that paid for the completion of Point Salines Airport. When US Secretary of State George Shultz visited Grenada in February 1984 he described it as “a lovely piece of real estate”; unfortunately, foreign private investment did not agree and so Washington’s plans to stimulate economic growth and development met with limited success.2
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Notes
James Ferguson, Grenada: Revolution in Reverse (London: Latin America Bureau, 1991), 37.
W. Marvin Will, “From Authoritarianism to Political Democracy in grenada: Questions for U.S. Policy,” Studies in Comparative International Development$126, no. 3 (Fall 1991): 50.
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Williams, G. (2007). Epilogue. In: US-Grenada Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609952_10
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