Every briefing on Cuban Insights is derived from primary Cuban-government, US-government, and international monitoring sources — refreshed twice daily, with full provenance kept for each data point.
The complete US Treasury OFAC consolidated SDN list, filtered for the CUBA program (administered under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 CFR Part 515). Tracks every individual, entity, vessel, and aircraft sanctioned in connection with Cuba.
Entities and subentities the executive branch has prohibited direct financial transactions with under §515.209. Distinct from the OFAC SDN — most CRL entries (GAESA holdings, Gaviota, Cubanacán, Habaguanex hotels, etc.) are NOT on the SDN.
Specific hotels and casas particulares that fail the §515.210 'no commerce with the Cuban government' test. Used by the company-exposure tooling to flag MAR / HLT / IHG / CHH branded properties that touch Gaviota or Cubanacán.
Final rules, proposed rules, executive orders, and notices published by federal agencies. Source of truth for OFAC CACR amendments, BIS export-control updates, and State Department Cuba Restricted List actions.
Official news feed of the Cuban National Assembly: bills introduced, laws passed (Ley 118 foreign investment, the MIPYMES framework), committee work, and parliamentary diplomacy. Translated into English by our analyzer.
The official gazette publishing every Cuban law, decree, and government resolution. We OCR scanned PDFs and persist the underlying text so each item is searchable and analyzable.
Official daily reference rates of the Cuban peso (CUP) against the US dollar and other currencies — tasaOficial, tasaPublica (CADECA), and tasaEspecial (the 2022 institutional rate used for state and joint-venture transactions). Pulled from the public api.bc.gob.cu REST API.
elTOQUE's daily index of the informal CUP/USD, CUP/MLC, and CUP/USDT exchange rates — the de-facto market reference for ordinary Cubans, remittance senders, and MIPYMES. Pulled from the authenticated tasas.eltoque.com API. Attribution required by elTOQUE ToS is preserved on every surface.
Press releases and diplomatic statements from Cuba's foreign ministry. Used to surface bilateral and multilateral developments relevant to investors (US-Cuba dialogue, EU PDCA progress, Mexico / Brazil / China engagement).
Cuba's national statistics office — GDP, trade, demographics, sectoral output. The macro baseline for any sector model.
Official US State Department travel advisory level for Cuba. Used in the security and operating-environment sections of the pillar guide and travel-related tools.
Aggregated RSS feeds from Granma (state), Cubadebate (state), 14ymedio (independent), OnCuba (diaspora), Diario de Cuba (opposition), and Havana Times. Per-outlet attribution preserved on every entry.
Global news event database used as a tone signal — we use the GDELT V2 GKG tone score as one of the inputs that decides which items get the more expensive LLM analysis treatment.
Each scrape run pulls fresh content from the sources above, deduplicates against what we've already seen, and runs the resulting items through a multi-stage filter:
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