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Eleven thousand stops, one weekend of code: the Mexican government ran out of technical alibis

I built an interactive map of CDMX public transport in one weekend — 11,362 stops, six modes, multimodal planner, conversational assistant on Gemini and MCP — using open data the government has published since 2022. If one person can deploy real value in two days, the question is no longer technical. An argument on incentives, opacity, and the alibi the Mexican state ran out of, with a short list of what could actually be deployed today.

Cybersecurity in Mexico: The Public Sector's Invisible Gap

Pemex Spill in the Gulf: Two Months of Opacity and What Satellites Show

In February, an oil slick appeared in the Gulf of Mexico. Pemex denied it for two months while the government recycled explanations—ghost ships, natural tar seeps—and kept internal data confidential. I built an independent verifier using Sentinel-1 SAR, SkyTruth Cerulean polygons, and Global Fishing Watch AIS telemetry. The result contradicts the official version and names the vessel the bulletins did not.

The Pillars of Cybersecurity

NSE 1 Analysis.

The Universe of Data.

How data science propels Mexican astronomy into the future.

Hacks on the Mexican government: not sophistication, but negligence

Mexico received over 40 billion cyberattack attempts in the first half of 2025. The problem isn't that the attackers are brilliant — it's that the State has been running unpatched infrastructure for years, with unsupervised vendors and compromised credentials. A technical overview of SPEI, PEMEX, Guacamaya, INE, IMSS, and Chronus, and why the 2025-2030 National Plan won't be enough.

Mexico's Tech Gap: Why Investing in Talent is Urgent

Mexico has the talent, demographics, and strategic location to be a technological powerhouse, but an outdated educational system, brain drain, and lack of investment hold us back. This article explores why investing in tech talent development is not optional, it's urgent.