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The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

Trump Says Cuba Is Next After Venezuela Attack. Population Armed to Defend Country

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

The Socialist Program

Politics, News

4.7587 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Trump ordered the massive bombing of Iran in June. Next he bombed Venezuela and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026. Is Trump now setting his imperial sights on Cuba?


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

Donald Trump ordered the massive bombing of Iran in June.

0:07.1

Next, he bombed Venezuela and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro in January

0:13.0

26.

0:15.1

Is Trump now setting his sights, his imperial sites, on Cuba?

0:21.6

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have

0:27.4

sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome back to the Socialist Program.

0:59.0

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

1:01.3

Today we're talking once again with Manolo de los Santos.

1:05.0

Manolo is the executive director of the People's Forum in New York.

1:09.9

Manolo, welcome back. Thank you for having me York. Manolo, welcome back.

1:11.8

Thank you for having me back.

1:13.5

Manolo, we've talked a great deal in the last weeks about the kidnapping of Nicholas Maduro

1:19.6

and his wife, the bombing of Venezuela, what comes next, the building of a new anti-war

1:26.6

movement in the United States. That certainly has

1:29.3

happened very immediately. Within hours after the bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, tens of

1:36.9

thousands of people in more than 75, no, actually more than 100 cities, maybe more than 140

1:43.0

cities, came together almost instantly to say no

1:47.1

to this aggression against Venezuela. But what about Cuba? I mean, Trump has said Cuba's the next to

1:54.7

fall. The U.S. has the greatest part of its Navy and Air Force assets in the Caribbean in the Pacific against

2:03.4

Venezuela, but really right around Cuba.

2:06.7

Anyway, how did Cuba view the bombing of Venezuela, the kidnapping of the head of state,

2:13.0

and how are they reacting?

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