Juan Manuel (@limonta) - Political Hive

Juan Manuel

Havana

Passionate about music, sports, and politics.

7 days 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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24 days 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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about 1 month 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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about 1 month 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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about 1 month 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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about 1 month 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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about 1 month ago

Finding Cuba-Related Records with the ForeignAssistance.gov API One of the challenges I keep running into while researching the U.S.-funded Cuba "democracy" program is that the [public search interface](

about 2 months ago

I earned my PhD! [EN/ES] Hello hivers. Yesterday, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation in candidacy for the scientific degree of Doctor in Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Innovati

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2 months ago

A New, LLM-Assisted Pipeline to Back My Research Over the last two days, I have been designing a Python script to extract specific information from Grants.gov: Cuba-related funding opportunities published by four federal entities —the n

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2 months ago

A Technical Deep Dive into Budget Apportionment Tracking Using the OpenOMB API Last night, working until the very midnight, I finished another tool contributing to what I call a "[technosci

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