Venezuela to Trump’s ‘Total Blockade’: You Will Never Colonize Us
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Brian Becker is joined by Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum to discuss Trump’s “total blockade” against Venezuela — an “act of war” targeting oil tankers and ports, according to members of Congress as they vote on a War Powers Resolution to prevent the president’s attacks from escalating even further. De Los Santos also reviews Venezuela’s response to Trump’s attacks, as well as its history of foreign colonization and how it has shaped the consciousness of every generation in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a complete blockade on sanctioned oil tankers going into and from Venezuela. |
| 0:12.4 | This is a major escalation of the Trump White House efforts to topple the government in Venezuela. |
| 0:19.8 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:21.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:23.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:28.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:59.2 | Today we're joined once again by Manolo de los Santos. |
| 1:02.5 | Manolo is the executive director of the People's Forum. |
| 1:06.9 | Manolo, welcome back. |
| 1:08.6 | Thank you, Brian, for having me back. |
| 1:10.2 | It's so important that we come back together to talk about this urgent issue facing Venezuela. |
| 1:16.1 | Yeah, people all over the United States are alarmed that Trump is moving towards war. |
| 1:21.6 | He's assembled what he calls the biggest armada ever, 15,000 troops and aircraft carrier, fighter jets, naval destroyer groups, |
| 1:30.9 | all threatening the people of Venezuela. And then the White House announced this complete and total |
| 1:36.8 | blockade. Not only are the people in the United States reacting badly to Trump, people don't |
| 1:43.2 | want another war, don't want another war based on lies |
| 1:46.2 | like the Iraq war. But we also want to talk about the reaction inside of Venezuela, the people in |
| 1:51.7 | Venezuela, how they're reacting, the government in Venezuela reacted right away. I thought the |
| 1:57.6 | statement from the Venezuelan government was very, very noteworthy, in fact. |
| 2:03.2 | Anyway, I want to get your take about the reaction. First, inside of Venezuela. |
| 2:08.5 | Well, I think the Venezuelan people have been quite clear across the political spectrum |
| 2:14.2 | over the last couple of months. I mean, since mid-August when these war threats |
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