By The Washington Times Sunday, October 5, 2008 BAYOU OF PIGS By Stewart Bell John Wiley & Sons, $24.95, 272 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN WEISMAN In March 1979, Grenada’s prime minister, Eric Gairy, flew to New York for meetings at the United Nations.  In his absence, a London-trained Grenadian lawyer named Maurice Bishop, “six feet, three inches tall with a big smile and big ideas, part of the generation of students deeply moved by Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution,” staged a coup.  Read more [...]

By BERNIE FARBER Sun., Oct. 26, 2008 Original url at: Thestar.com Bayou of Pigs:The True Story of an Audacious Plot to Turn a Tropical Island into a Criminal Paradise by Stewart Bell Wiley, 284 pages, $24.95 Imagine planning a coup d'état -– the violent overthrow of a small Caribbean island with a band of misfits.  Among the crew are the scum of the earth:  jailbirds, social outcasts, neo-Nazis and members of the KKK.  Then imagine these soldiers of misfortune Read more [...]

By Matthew Lauder Original url: http://www.canadiancontent.ca/articles/031401reddog.html April 27, 2001, is the 20th anniversary of a little known day in modern Canadian history.  It is a day that has not been sufficiently addressed in an academic text, nor is it a day that the average Canadian can even remember, which is surprising considering it involves neo-Nazi mercenaries, the Mafia, spies, and an attempted invasion of Dominica.  It is a tale so bizarre that newspapers called it Read more [...]

Granada was the target.  The aim was to overthrow the revolution led by the New Jewel movement, and to return the ousted tyrant, Eric Gairy, to power.  Mercenary leader, Michael Perdue of Houston, Texas, began plotting his counter-revolution as soon as he read published accounts of the revolution in the spring of 1979.  First, he sought out Gairy, met him in San Diego, and put forward this proposition:  For a price, Perdue would overturn Maurice Bishop’s government and reinstate Gairy as Prime Minister.  Gairy agreed and told Perdue to proceed. Read more [...]