With the US attacking boats in the Caribbean as a means to provoke a military strike against Venezuela, the LMC spends the hour with Erica Caines, the Field Operations and Membership coordinator of The Black Alliance For Peace, to discuss Trinidad & Tobago’s role in enabling US military hegemony in the region.
Category Archives: Caribbean
October 24th, 2025: Puerto Rico & Zionism
Are there parallels between Puerto Rico’s colonial status and occupied Palestine? The colonizers seem to think so. So the LMC spends the hour with Alberto Medina and James Early to discuss the colonial structure that marginalizes both Puerto Ricans and Palestinians toward solidarity.
Alberto C. Medina is a Puerto Rico–born, US-based writer, editor, and advocate for Puerto Rican independence. He is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR). His Substack is Free Puerto Rico.
James Early is the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service.
September 5th, 2025: Cuba Under the Embargo
Freelance writer Francisco Lozano joins the LMC for the first time to discuss his recent travels to Cuba and how life function, or doesn’t function, under US economic sanctions.
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