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Juan Manuel
@limonta
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Passionate about music, sports, and politics.
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2022-06-18 04:32
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StemSocial
2026-06-24 22:04
A Technical Deep Dive into Budget Apportionment Tracking Using the OpenOMB API
Following the task of developing tools to feed a specific technoscientific workflow, making public data simpler to read for common users.
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StemSocial
2026-06-22 19:51
Building a Python app with Claude to query the USASpending.gov API
With Claude´s assistance, I built a Python tool to query USASpending.gov for Cuba-related contracts and grants. The API had some quirks —500 errors, pagination limits, and not-so-visible endpoints. Here's
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StemSocial
2026-06-21 01:30
What I Think About Cuba's Turn Toward a "Socialist" Market Economy
Cuban authorities have announced a sweeping economic plan that will substantially reconfigure society. Here is my reading of it.
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StemSocial
2026-06-19 19:26
Building a Browser-Based Contextual Awareness Tool for a Politically Sponsored Information Ecosystem
Building upon the technoscientific workflow for analyzing U.S.-funded, Cuba-bound information operations I introduced recently here.
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StemSocial
2026-06-17 19:00
A Technoscientific Workflow for Analyzing U.S.-funded, Cuba-bound Information Operations
A model for analyzing U.S.-funded cyberspace operations targeting Cuba while empowering users.
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Music
2026-06-16 21:09
Three Tunes Tuesday: X [ES/EN]
Les propongo escuchar tres pistas del nuevo álbum del influyente cantautor cubano X Alfonso / I selected three tunes from the new album of Cuban musician X Alfonso
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Deep Dives
2026-06-13 20:57
Wealth, Dynasty, and the Limits of Latin American Democracy
This edition of the Latin American Report confronts the question that matters for democracy.
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StemSocial
2026-06-12 21:39
Economics as a STEM Discipline and Its (Blocked) Contribution to Cuba's Future
Do economics belong within the STEM tradition? What about its potential —or blocked— contribution to Cuba's future? I relate these apparently separate issues in this post.
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StemSocial
2026-06-11 22:47
A Critical Assessment of Social Cybersecurity as a Technoscientific Enterprise
Cybersecurity today goes beyond protecting systems—it’s about understanding and countering influence and disinformation shaping society. This post explores one approach to that challenge.
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StemSocial
2026-06-11 04:00
Some "Intractable" Properties of Cyberspace in the Face of Censorship
In his classic text "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", Langdon Winner describes two ways in which technologies can embody values, interests, and political decisions. What about cyberspace and Cuba,
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StemSocial
2026-06-09 23:58
Marx and his complicated relationship with Hegel's dialectics
When I began studying Marx's "dialectical method," given its Hegelian foundations and my inclination to always go to the root of whatever I am investigating, I found myself obliged to study Hegel's
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StemSocial
2026-06-08 22:20
Getting Closer to an Academic Milestone in a Harsh Context
I have just submitted the final version of my doctoral thesis to the committee that will evaluate me in mid-July. It has been a long journey to get here.
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Deep Dives
2026-06-05 04:49
Arturo Sandoval and Political Intolerance
Some years ago, I was in communication with the great Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval—the musical godson of the unforgettable Dizzy Gillespie—through the old, abandoned Twitter. A story of tolerance.
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Deep Dives
2026-06-04 03:32
Putting the spotlight where it belongs
Aswering this from a longtime CNN correspondent in Havana In Sagua de Tánamo, my hometown municipality in Holguín, they had gone 33 hours without electricity by midday today. That is the norm, and it affects
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Deep Dives
2026-06-02 22:47
Chris Van Hollen vs. Marco Rubio on Cuba
A brief exchange from this Tuesday between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio reveals the irrationality that this administration embodies.
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News & Views
2026-05-20 22:51
Cuba, the “Independence Day,” and the indictment against Raúl Castro
Cuba was born as a formally independent republic under the shadow of the Platt Amendment. More than a century later, Washington still struggles to relate to Cuba outside the language of supervision, pressure,
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News & Views
2026-05-19 05:24
On the incredible deportation of Alex Saab
The hypocrisy of Venezuela's "ruling" team has never been more naked. In 2023, they celebrated Alex Saab as a political prisoner freed from U.S. imperialism. Now, they deport him to Trump and
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Deep Dives
2026-05-17 21:47
Cuba and the Quest for Peace
Assessing the real threat of war on Cuba, I call for the international community to stand up and help Cubans in our quest for peace.
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Deep Dives
2026-05-14 14:16
Cuba and the crass cynicism of the Trump administration
An update on the current situation in Cuba.
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Deep Dives
2026-04-17 20:57
The Latin American Report # 720
My take on some interesting developments in the region.
