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AI in Cuba's news media

2 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 2 news organizations, 2021–2022.
Latin America and the Caribbean2021–2022
Cases
2
Organizations
2
Active since
2021
Controversies
1

What AI is used for

Content Production & Automation1
Research & Investigation1

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access0
2 – Adoption0
3 – Proficiency1
4 – Ways of Working1
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Public broadcaster / state media (1), Media dev org (1)

Notable cases

2021elTOQUE

"elTOQUE Markets" — Custom NLP bots scrape social media (Facebook, Telegram, Twitter) for black market exchange rates; AI calculates consensus USD/CUP rate; published as Tasas de elTOQUE, used by millions of Cubans as primary reference rate for informal economy

Research & Investigation4 – Ways of Working⚑ controversy
Custom NLP scraper algorithms (proprietary, in-house); Tasas de elTOQUE mobile appSource →

2022Cubadebate

Automated generation of baseball game summary articles based on statistics using CompAI platform; AI-generated texts carry on-page label

Content Production & Automation3 – Proficiency
CompAI (developed by Parque Cientifico Tecnologico de La Habana)Source →

Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina 49Bolivia 6Brazil 41Chile 6Colombia 18Costa Rica 5Dominican Republic 5Ecuador 6El Salvador 5Guatemala 3Guyana 1
Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.