{"id":315292,"date":"2026-04-27T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=315292"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:29:57","slug":"the-trump-administrations-war-on-cuba-w-medea-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/the-trump-administrations-war-on-cuba-w-medea-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration&#8217;s War on Cuba (w\/ Medea Benjamin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Trump Administration\u2019s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Trump Administration&#039;s War on Cuba (w\/ Medea Benjamin) | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzWMouhvDeM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Apr 2026 &#8211; The Trump Administration\u2019s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1473,530,3281,2242,629,541,2159,249,70],"class_list":["post-315292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-blockade","tag-cuba","tag-evil-empire","tag-famine","tag-international-law","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-rogue-states","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315293,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315292\/revisions\/315293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}