Basic HTML Version
PAGE 8
PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 11, 1983
Having s :p ent three weeks visiting some of the leading
socialist/communist countries in the world, and mixing freely
with advocates of these ideologies, one frightening fact has been
brought home to me in no uncertain manner.
And that is:
"Revolution is an exportable commodity" despite what "Comrade"
Maurice Bishop has been saying. [Bishop was the Grenadian Prime
Minister who was murdered by forces to the extreme left.]
It is just a matter of time before we see countries in the Carib
bean (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago and Barbados in
that order) coming under the pressure being exerted to bring
these countries under Cuba's influence and eventually becoming
satellites of the U.S.S.R.
Readers may be wondering if I have gone mad or am seeing ghosts
where none exist but I can assure them, that nothing could be
further from the truth and what I am predicting is just a matter
of TIME. I was amazed to learn for instance just how many young
men from the countries I have listed above (except for Tobago)
have received military training in Libya, courtesy of that
country's leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
It is a most explosive situation for the Governments, particular
ly in St. Lucia and Dominica and from what I learned from first
hand information, is that the respective Prime Ministers cannot
be sleeping very well at nights.
[Dominica's lady Prime
Minister, Eugenia Charles, it turns out, was instrumental in the
Grenada intervention.] "Socialism thrives where there is poverty
or ignorance," one well-informed socialist lectured to me with
great authority and "in the Caribbean, we have a ready made
situation for revolutions and a change in ideologies," he
emphasized.
Fidel Castro's Cuba has been playing its part admirably in bring
ing about a Socialist Caribbean, as far as the U.S.S.R. is con
cerned, by offering hundreds of educational scholarships to
students from the Caribbean.
These scholarships accepted by
Caribbean students are heavily laden with socialist ideology
which the Cubans expect will be spread when the students return
to their countries.
Those who spoke openly with me, made it clear that it was a well
orchestrated plan worked out in such a way that within the next
10 years there would hardlybeacountr'yln the Caribbe'a°ilwhlcfi
was not a soc1al1st state, finked through�uba to the U.S.S.R.
"Obviousry the Americans are fully aware of what1S go'Ing on but
they are helpless to stop the march of socialism in your region,"
boasted another well-informed source to me during my stay in the
socialist/communist countries.
From all appearances Trinidad because of its economic strength
appears to be a very hard nut to crack, but that certainly does
not mean that we have been given up as a lost cause.
I was
reminded on several occasions that it does not take mass
demonstrations or nationwide strikes to bring about a revolution,
but merely a handful of dedicated souls who could oust any