President of Cuba congratulates Hero of the Republic on his birthday

Havana, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other Cuban authorities today congratulated the Hero of the Republic, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, on his 57th birthday.

In his profile on Twitter, the president sent his hug to the current national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, who served prison in the United States for informing his country about terrorist plans hatched from the Florida city of Miami.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle in the neighborhoods to face the floods, a birthday hug for our National Coordinator of the #CDR, @ GHNordelo5, always a hero, wrote the Cuban head of state.

For his part, the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization and Policy of Cadres of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, recalled that Hernández Nordelo bravely faced the sentences imposed in the US, in December 2001, in a trial qualified by experts as rigged.

Two life sentences plus 15 years were intended to distance him from the people he loves and defended at the risk of his entire life, but his convictions remained intact. His vocation is to serve, with dedication, firmness and enthusiasm. Congratulations on your birthday @GHNordelo5, expressed Morales on that social network.

Hernández Nordelo, a graduate of International Relations, is one of the revolutionaries known internationally as The Five, who infiltrated violent groups based in Miami to raise awareness of their activities.

He was released on December 17, 2014 as part of a humanitarian agreement reached between the governments of the United States and Cuba.

The release was announced simultaneously by then presidents Raúl Castro and Barack Obama in two communiqués in which the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries was also announced.

On February 24, 2015, Hernández Nordelo was decorated with the title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Playa Girón Order.