I explore here the evolution of my Cuban Assets Control Regulations Tracker beyond its original purpose. The focus is now on a resilient caching architecture based on immutable historical snapshots.

I have a theory to explain our extreme economic isolation from the outside world.

White Sox 12-3 Astros. Murakami (2 HR, 6 RBI) y Vargas lideran una gran jornada ofensiva en el Rate Field. Jeremy Peña sacudió dos jonrones por la visita.

After four days of hard work, this code is finally ready to start serving the people.

Tres excelentes pistas de "Take Cover!", lo último de Alfredo Rodríguez Jr. / Three quite good tracks from Alfredo Rodríguez Jr.'s "Take Cover!" album.

Should economic science model ideal scenarios, or respond to the concrete constraints shaping the present?

I found records associated with Cuba that were reported under other countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Venezuela.

After years of work, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation this week.

Building a Cuba-Related Grants.gov pipeline with Python to feed my research agenda

The tale of an unintended second part.

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,