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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.

On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and security – and that of the entire region– is under imminent threat of military aggression by the...

Dr. Jemima Pierre, professor of Global Race at the University of British Columbia and member of Black Alliance for Peace, joins the show to discuss the role of private mercenaries like Erik Prince, the founder Blackwater, in escalating violence in Haiti. As Prince funnels weapons and armed drones into Haiti,...

Manolo De Los Santos, the Executive Director of The People’s Forum, joins The Freedom Side to discuss Trump’s latest executive order on Cuba, reinstating all sanctions Biden had lifted before leaving office. De Los Santos will discuss the economic warfare behind the June 30 executive order, which targets Cuban companies...

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...

Manolo De Los Santos, the Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research discusses the total collapse of Cuba’s national power grid that left the country without electricity for several days. De Los Santos explains how the US’s brutal 60-year blockade has sabotaged...

Has the latest UN military occupation of Haiti improved the country’s security? Dr. Jemima Pierre says the answer is a clear “no.” She joins hosts Eugene and Rania to discuss the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti under a US-backed mission to supposedly “restore security.” Pierre reveals how the US...

Hundreds of students gathered at the University of Havana to condemn the police repression of US student protesters and show their support for Palestine. On the same steps, students were repressed by the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s — one of the sparks of the revolution.

A few days after the Dominican Republic shut down its border with Haiti over a border dispute, Joe Biden called on the UN to militarily intervene in Haiti amid an uptick in violence. The call for intervention has been met with widespread criticism given the long history of human rights...

Before leaving office, Trump placed Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Now the State Dept has reasserted the designation in February.  Calla Walsh, co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, explains its immense impact on the blockade on Cuba and how the US uses the “terrorist” designation...