The Socialist Program with Brian Becker Lies Everyone Tells About Venezuela
Oct 9, 2025
Claudia De la Cruz, Executive Director of IFCO and 2024 presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism & Liberation, dives deep into U.S. imperialism's war mentality towards Venezuela. She discusses the alarming impacts of ICE raids on all working-class communities and highlights the need for unity against rising authoritarianism. Claudia details the U.S.'s resource-driven motives for intervention in Venezuela and connects it to the harmful effects of sanctions on both Venezuela and Cuba. She emphasizes the importance of grassroots solidarity to combat imperialism.
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Raids Create The 'War Zone' They Claim To Fix
- The Trump administration is waging a domestic war that terrorizes immigrant and mixed working-class communities.
- Claudia de la Cruz argues these raids create the hostile conditions they claim to fix and target whole neighborhoods, not just undocumented people.
Profit Drives Immigration Crackdowns
- Deportation and detention are highly profitable for private prison and tech companies.
- Claudia links corporate profit motives to the manufactured immigration 'emergency' used to justify mass raids and detentions.
Enforcement Expands Repression For All
- Expanding immigration enforcement strengthens surveillance and mass incarceration for everyone.
- Claudia warns these mechanisms target Black people, immigrants, the left, and any dissenters, not just one group.
