U.S. wants to set up military radar in Grenada to monitor Venezuela

Source: New York Amsterdam News

U.S. wants to set up military radar in Grenada to monitor Venezuela

Opposition grows as military commander heads to island

by Bert Wilkinson
October 16, 2025

Maybe only the top officials at the White House and Pentagon know the exact plans for possible military action against Venezuela, but Washington appears to be soliciting the help of several reluctant Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations in its ambitions against the South American nation.

In the past week, the Trump administration formally asked the Eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada to allow the U.S. to establish a military radar base at Grenada’s main international airport, presumably to monitor activities in Venezuela, just 100 miles to the south of the island.

Grenada’s Dickon Mitchell administration had been given less than a week to make up its mind on the issue, even as local opposition to the idea simmered and the U.S. upped the pressure on authorities by sending Southern Commander Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey to Grenada and Antigua for urgent talks with top officials on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

From all appearances, the admiral’s visit is timed to coincide with the request for Grenada, which, ironically, the U.S. invaded back in 1983, to allow the military radar at the airport — the same facility that the Reagan administration had tried to shut down because the then-leftist government was building it to allegedly accommodate Russian fighter jets. The airport is a civilian facility.

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