Reformist governments — however well-intentioned — that operate within the framework of capitalist relations and seek accommodation with imperialism will ultimately be unable to defend the gains of the working class. The people of Venezuela and Cuba are paying in blood and hunger the price of imperialist aggression. The task of revolutionaries throughout the hemisphere — and internationally — is to build the organized political capacity of the working class that can not only resist the bourgeois offensive, but ultimately transcend it.

In Havana, the lights are going out as an economic blockade tightens like a fist. This is not ancient history. This is now. Welcome to Latin America Dispatches: The Class Struggle in 2026 — where we bear witness, analyze, and refuse to look away." My guest for this episode is Onyesonwe Chatoyer.

Onyesonwu is editor of the Hood Communist - A collective of trans-national African revolutionary nationalists using journalism to advance the struggle for African liberation. https://hoodcommunist.org/