Juan Manuel (@limonta) - Political Hive

Juan Manuel

Havana

Passionate about music, sports, and politics.

1 day ago

Che Guevara’s Legacy According to Benigno Within the Cuban revolutionary tradition, from 1959 to the present day, Che Guevara is undoubtedly the hero I sympathize with most. I have always admired the remarkable consisten

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55.407 VOTE

6 days ago

Some ideas about Lula's defeat last night I’m not starting with the discussion about predictions. They’re increasingly unreliable — or at least debatable. I suspect some are published in altered fo

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3964.531 VOTE

9 days ago

Finance and Economy

New US sanctions will worsen Cuba's humanitarian crisis and torpedo economic reform Hurriedly, at the worst possible moment, with the same (bad) administrators at the helm of the state, and, above all, forced by a policy of economic asphyxiat

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1536.556 VOTE

14 days ago

The Current State of Cuba's Comprehensive Crisis Since this island connected to the world in the late fifteenth century—with Christopher Columbus's arrival on its shores—crisis has been a constant state.

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11707.267 VOTE

about 2 months ago

From API Crawl to a 3.5 GB CSV Pipeline Yesterday I worked on redesigning my ForeignAssistance.gov tracker. The version [I showed you](

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3390.382 VOTE

2 months ago

Finance and Economy

Is It Rational to Demand Economic Independence from Cuba? I tend to be perplexed when some dilettantes in political science demand that Cuba become an economically independent country. That is, a nation capable of solving its own food needs and—generall

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510.068 VOTE

2 months ago

A proactive cache system for my CACR tracker When I first introduced the Cuban Assets Control Regulations Tracker , I described its core mission: to make the

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537.760 VOTE

2 months ago

The Latin American Report: Why Did Cuba End Up Alone? First, this is a regressive dynamic that has been building for some time. What we're witnessing now is simply the most extreme point of that decline of external support. About…

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4462.078 VOTE

3 months ago

Building a Better Way to Navigate the Cuban Assets Control Regulations Most discussions about the U.S. sanctions imposed on Cuba eventually become ideological. Very few people—regardless of their political position—are actually

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4167.541 VOTE

3 months ago

Counterfactuals vs. Material Conditions: What Makes an Economic Model Scientifically Useful? I have read this recent report from the Cuba Transformación project. This is an initiative advanced by five Cuban economists to generate fresh ideas to boost our economy.

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