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Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Grenada’s Black revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983, along with seven others. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. Now, The Washington Post’s Martine Powers uncovers new answers about how the U.S. fits into this 40-year-old Caribbean mystery.


“The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop” is an investigative podcast that delves into the revolutionary history of Grenada, why the missing remains still matter and the role the U.S. government played in shaping the fate of the island nation.


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0:00.0

Hi, it's Martine. If you are a longtime listener of this podcast, hopefully you have not forgotten who I am.

0:07.2

I'm Martine Powers, one of the hosts of Post Reports. And as you have likely noticed, I have been

0:12.7

gone for most of this year working on a project that before I couldn't talk about. Well, now I'm here

0:19.9

to tell you that this project is coming out at the end of this month. It's an investigative podcast

0:25.7

called the Empty Grave of Comrad Bishop. It's a mystery, a 40-year-old mystery on the Caribbean

0:32.3

Island of Grenada. And I want two things from you. First, go ahead and subscribe to the Empty Grave

0:39.6

of Comrad Bishop on your podcast app. The first two episodes come out on October 23rd. So if you

0:45.9

subscribe now, you will be ready. It'll show up on your phone the moment it drops. Thing number two

0:51.0

is I want you to listen to our trailer. You will get a sense of what this story is about,

0:56.5

and why we think that you're going to enjoy listening. With that, thanks so much. See you guys soon,

1:01.9

and here we go with the trailer for the Empty Grave of Comrad Bishop, a new investigative

1:07.1

podcast from the Washington Post. So I just want to ask to be clear. Did you ever see the body

1:15.5

of Mori's Bishop? No. You're sure? Absolutely. Do you remember speaking with any of the people

1:25.0

who were involved in looking for Mori's Bishop's remains? None.

1:37.1

There's a mystery on the Caribbean Island of Grenada that goes back 40 years. It's about the

1:42.9

revolutionary leader who is executed in a coup in 1983. Seven people were killed alongside him,

1:49.5

and the whereabouts of their remains are unknown. What do you know? No, I have no idea.

1:57.5

What do people think happened? Well, people speculate. People said different things,

2:03.6

but the people who are behind it never say so you will never know.

2:07.6

Over the last year and a half, I've interviewed more than 100 people about this mystery.

2:14.5

People in Grenada and Americans, soldiers, diplomats, intelligence officers,

2:20.2

even a member of the U.S. Congress. Because 40 years ago, the actions of the U.S.

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