Cuba is entering its 10th month under a US fuel blockade, as Venezuela’s elected president sits in a jail cell in New York. Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of The People’s Forum, joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to ask what the 2026 midterms “Blue Tsunami” means on the ground for a region still squarely in “chief colonial minister of Latin America” Marco Rubio’s crosshairs. De Los Santos is putting the new Democratic-led Congress on notice: if they don’t act to stop Rubio and Trump, they will be complicit in a blockade that has left Cuban hospitals and schools without electricity and cut food production by 60%. De Los Santos calls it an act of war and challenges the newly blue legislature to pass a war powers resolution to stop it. He weighs in on the “Donroe Doctrine,” Caribbean boat strikes, the January 3 bombing of Caracas, and the new Shield of the Americas military coalition being used to redeploy US troops in Honduras, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. They unpack how Democrats laid the groundwork, from the 2009 coup in Honduras to the Obama-era framework for extrajudicial killings. Plus: the wave of right-wing governments lining up behind Washington, Lula’s election victory in Brazil, the State Department’s campaign to paint the US left as foreign agents, and what Rubio’s rumored resignation could mean for the coming period. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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