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{{Infobox | {{Infobox person|name=Maurice Bishop|birth_date=29 May 1944|birth_place=Aruba, [[Netherlands Antilles]]|death_date=19 October 1983|death_place=Saint George's, [[Grenada]]|death_cause=Firing squad|nationality=Grenadian}} | ||
|birth_place=Aruba, [[Netherlands Antilles]]|death_date=19 October 1983|death_place=Saint George's, [[Grenada]]|death_cause=Firing squad|nationality=Grenadian | |||
'''Maurice Bishop''' | '''Maurice Bishop''' was the Prime Minister of the [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada]] from 1979 to his death in 1983. He took power after the overthrow of [[Eric Gairy]], who had ruled for almost 30 years and believed that he had been appointed by God.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=John S. Brierley|year=1985|title=A Review of Development Strategies and Programmes of the People's Revolutionary Government in Grenada, 1979-83|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/633276|publisher=The Royal Geographical Society|page=40–47}}</ref> | ||
== Pre-revolution == | == Pre-revolution == | ||
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In 1980, the [[National Cooperative Development Agency]] was established to start agricultural cooperatives, mostly run by formerly unemployed people. There were also 30 state-owned farms that had been owned by Gairy's administration before the revolution. Workers at these farms were given one-third of the farm's profit and the rest was given to the state.<ref name=":0" /> | In 1980, the [[National Cooperative Development Agency]] was established to start agricultural cooperatives, mostly run by formerly unemployed people. There were also 30 state-owned farms that had been owned by Gairy's administration before the revolution. Workers at these farms were given one-third of the farm's profit and the rest was given to the state.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
== References == | == References == |