Cuba

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.

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...

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.

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...

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez sat down with BT’s Rania Khalek following the UN General Assembly to discuss why so many countries oppose the U.S. blockade, how U.S. official hostility towards Cuba hurts both countries and his own personal history volunteering in the liberation struggle of Angola against racist apartheid.

The fire in Cuba that burned for five days, after lightning set off a series of explosions, is finally under control. But 17 firefighters are listed as missing, and the fire destroyed what is likely to be millions of gallons of precious fuel that is hard for Cuba to obtain...

A massive fire in Matanzas, Cuba, is coming under control after five days due to tireless efforts by firefighters and specialist crews. But the U.S. blockade, which worsened under Trump with 243 additional coercive measures, and which Biden has largely kept in place, has deprived Cuba of equipment and resources...

The U.S. offered its condolences to Cuba after lightning struck a Cuban oil facility, only to continue to uphold the brutal U.S. blockade of Cuba, the very policy impeding Cuba’s recovery. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains how the blockade works and why it makes U.S. condolences so hypocritical.