Editing New Jewel Movement (section)

== Foreign policy ==
The new government looked to [[Cuba]] for aid since the PRG had a "strained relationship with the United States" right from the outset.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Gary |date=August 2002 |title=Brief Encounter: Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's Visit to Washington |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3875464 |journal=Journal of Latin American Studies |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=659–685 |doi=10.1017/S0022216X02006478 |jstor=3875464|url-access=subscription }}</ref> One of Bishop's first major projects was to supersede the small [[Pearls Airport]] on the north end of the island with a large, modern [[Point Salines International Airport]] on the south end. Over 600 Cuban construction workers were brought in to assist in the project.<ref name="Sunkara_article"/>

The NJM also worked closely with Cuba to provide assistance to left-wing revolutionary movements around the world, such as the [[South West African People's Organization]] (SWAPO) in [[Namibia]] and the [[Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front]] (FMLN) in [[El Salvador]].<ref name="Demographic">{{cite book |last=Domínguez |first=Jorge I. |date=1989 |title=To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=0-674-89325-5 |pages=165–166}}</ref>