E324: Blockade Party w/ Noah Kulwin & Brendan James
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The hosts of Blowback Podcast report back from Colombia and Cuba!
For an extended version of this episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
In Bogota, they attended a conference of the Progressive International that drafted a declaration for countering the Donroe Doctrine. And in Havana, they witnessed immediate results of Trump's full blockade of oil imports, leaving the island with only 3 weeks of fuel before the power grid fails.
Along the way we talk about various forms of ice protests in New York, the lack of internationalist power among the (North) American left, the twisting road of recent US-Cuban foreign policy, the afterlife of the Pink Tide, and some tips on visiting Cuba while you still can.
Show notes: Rubio seeks regime change in Cuba: https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/rubio-no-end-to-cuba-sanctions-without-regime-change
The Progressive International's San Carlos Declaration: https://progressive.international/wire/2026-01-25-nuestra-amrica/en/
Trump says US in talks with Cuban leadership: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/us-is-in-talks-with-cuban-leadership-says-trump-after-blockade-threats
Russia supplying air defenses? https://www.defensenews.com/global/the-americas/2026/02/02/russian-cargo-plane-arrives-in-cuba-echoing-frantic-caracas-buildup/
Song: Celina González - Décimas de la Revolución
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, man, what's up. |
| 0:10.6 | We're talking about Epstein. |
| 0:12.1 | Yes. |
| 0:12.9 | You're looking like very much like a beatnik, like a guy who'd be in like the Vincenero's |
| 0:18.7 | brigade in like 1962 or something like that very |
| 0:22.2 | appropriate yeah i did it for this recording uh specifically i had a whole different outfit on |
| 0:27.7 | and then five minutes ago i said shit i'm supposed to be on this cuba thing well thank you for |
| 0:31.9 | doing that for this audio only recording it's very kind of you i did enjoy the picture of you |
| 0:37.1 | too talking in Cuba because |
| 0:38.5 | maybe it's just projecting because I spoke in Cuba in 2019. But did you wear a pink linen suit? Yes, |
| 0:44.4 | I wore something very similar. You both look a little bit hot and frazzled. Was I wrong about that? |
| 0:50.0 | Not at all. No, no, you're not wrong. Well, I mean, it was, the thing was is that we were there and it was apparently like some of the coldest weather they've had in a decade plus. |
| 0:58.7 | Okay. |
| 0:59.3 | Which to say it was in the 60s and 70s. |
| 1:01.8 | And which meant that we were wearing like shirt, like I was wearing short sleeves and we were talking to people who are wearing like three layers. |
| 1:11.9 | But we had by the point, by the time we did that talk, I think Brennan and I had been on the road for like about a week. |
| 1:17.3 | And so we were, we were, we were, you know, ready to. |
| 1:21.5 | We were ready for home. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, just a little bit. |
| 1:24.3 | Just a little bit. |
| 1:25.1 | You're ready to come back to the socialist paradise of New York City, having left Cuba, |
| 1:30.0 | with our socialist mayor, Zoran, who apparently refuses to raise the outdoor temperatures above freezing, |
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