Following the task of developing tools to feed a specific technoscientific workflow, making public data simpler to read for common users.

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

Cuban authorities have announced a sweeping economic plan that will substantially reconfigure society. Here is my reading of it.

Building upon the technoscientific workflow for analyzing U.S.-funded, Cuba-bound information operations I introduced recently here.

A model for analyzing U.S.-funded cyberspace operations targeting Cuba while empowering users.

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

This edition of the Latin American Report confronts the question that matters for democracy.

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

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

A brief exchange from this Tuesday between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio reveals the irrationality that this administration embodies.

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,

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

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.

An update on the current situation in Cuba.

My take on some interesting developments in the region.