The World Stands With Cuba, Trump Prepares For War On Venezuela [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly, again, 165 to 7, to end the U.S. embargo on Cuba, with the U.S. and Israel voting against. This is as the one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit Cuba causes massive destruction but no deaths due to the country’s organization.
Plus, the Miami Herald is reporting that the Trump administration has approved military strikes on Venezuela, which could come ‘at any moment,’ and which could ignite the entire region.
Brian Becker is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of The People’s Forum in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. I'm John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:05.5 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
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| 0:19.0 | This week at the United Nations, the world stood once again with the people of |
| 0:24.2 | Cuba against the U.S. blockade. And the Miami Herald reports that the U.S. has made a decision |
| 0:31.7 | to carry out military strikes against Venezuela. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:40.4 | Today we're talking with Manolo de la Santos. He is the executive director of the People's Forum. |
| 0:46.9 | Manolo, welcome back. It's a pleasure to be back with you, Brian. |
| 0:50.5 | At the United Nations, Manolo, as happens every year, a vote comes up whether or not the world |
| 0:57.4 | should stand with the United States or stand with Cuba on the question of the U.S. |
| 1:03.3 | blockade of Cuba. |
| 1:05.0 | The United States officials say there is no blockade. |
| 1:07.9 | It's a complete fiction. |
| 1:10.0 | The world doesn't believe that. The world stood once again |
| 1:12.7 | with Cuba. I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk about some of the iterations, the new changes |
| 1:18.6 | that have taken place in Latin America regarding the U.S. blockade on Cuba. Argentina, for one, |
| 1:24.5 | voted with the United States, a couple others around the world, not many. |
| 1:29.1 | But we also want to talk about a new report from the Miami Herald that the Trump administration |
| 1:34.0 | has taken a decision to carry out military strikes inside of Venezuela. |
| 1:41.0 | Anyway, there's a lot to talk about. Let's start with Cuba and the Cuba vote. And again, |
| 1:45.6 | we saw, we witnessed people in the United States in New York City, where the UN is carrying |
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