Reply #14: I was there a month or 2 before the attack for a day on a cruise stopover.

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We toured the island by cab and were not stopped once. Definitely saw the young guys with AK47s or some such machine guns but I've seen the same at the airport in Rome and on a beach in Zihuatenejo - not too unusual. In any case I didn't experience any fear when I was there and our only unpleasant incident was the result of the boorish American tourists we shared a cab with.

We were told that Grenada wanted to expand tourism and the US would not provide funding support for the airport so they got it from the Cubans. All the wealthy homes in the hills previously occupied by Americans were then occupied by Cubans.