Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Cuba, Venezuela Targeted in Hybrid War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Cuba and Venezuela are in the crosshairs of the new Trump administration, and Trump has already put Cuba back on the heavily sanctioned state sponsor of terrorism list without reason. With declarations of a “Monroe Doctrine 2.0” and threats to seize the Panama Canal, the sovereignty of all of Latin America is at stake.
Brian is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of The People’s Forum in New York, to discuss the tactics used in this hybrid war by U.S. imperialism against the country, which possesses the largest oil reserves in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Cuba and Venezuela are in the crosshairs of the new Trump administration. |
| 0:07.0 | At stake is the sovereignty, freedom, independence, and self-determination, not only for the |
| 0:11.6 | people of Cuba and the people of Venezuela, but for all of Latin America. |
| 0:17.7 | We need a new system. |
| 0:19.3 | We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome back to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:56.4 | Today we're talking with Manolo de la Santos. He is the executive director of the People's Forum. |
| 1:02.1 | Manolo, welcome back. |
| 1:03.1 | Good to be back with you, Brian. |
| 1:04.7 | Well, Joe Biden, almost at the end of his administration, took Cuba finally off of the state sponsor of terrorism list, |
| 1:12.6 | completely political act to put it on and to take it off. |
| 1:15.6 | But Donald Trump coming into office says, |
| 1:18.6 | well, Cuba's back on the state sponsor of terrorism list. |
| 1:21.6 | Anyway, they're gunning for Cuba. |
| 1:23.6 | Trump is gunning for Cuba. |
| 1:25.6 | We know this, but they're also gunning for Venezuela. Anyway, |
| 1:28.5 | let's start with the state sponsor of terrorism list. Well, it's a completely arbitrary list. |
| 1:33.5 | We've talked about it on this show before. It's a list that basically is up to the political |
| 1:38.1 | feelings of whoever is in term of administration at that moment. Cuba was taken off that list in 2015 by President Obama. |
| 1:47.5 | Trump put Cuba on that list days before he left office in 2021. |
| 1:52.7 | And to everyone's surprise, Biden kept it on the list. |
| 1:57.2 | A list, again, for which there was no evidence process. |
| 1:59.7 | There was no fact-based process to determine whether Cuba was or wasn't. |
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