[Pnews] Cuban 5 - Gerardo Hernandez - I will do it again if I have to!
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Mon Jul 6 10:24:55 EDT 2015
Cuban spy: 'I will do it again if I have to'
After spending 16 years in US prisons, Gerardo Hernandez shares his
remarkable story behind his liberation.
05 Jul 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2015/07/gerardo-hernandez-150704082539427.html
<http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/subjects/communism.html>
*(Visit this page to watch a very cool interview with Gerardo and
Adriana Hernandez)*
Cuban intelligence officer Gerardo Hernandez was a central character in
the frosty relations between Cuba and the United States.
His return to Cuban soil on December 17, 2014 marked a dramatic new
beginning for both countries.
After 16 years in US prisons, he was given a hero's welcome, and remains
defiant and loyal to his government.
In 2001 he was convicted by a Miami court and handed down two life
sentences for sending intelligence back home to Cuba.
The court said his actions assisted in the murder of Cuban exiles - in
the shooting down of two planes - who were attempting to overthrow the
Castro government.
He was a spy, but Hernandez, and the other members of the so-called
"Cuban Five" spies captured on US soil and now released, have been
declared national heroes by Fidel Castro and were decorated by Cuban
president Raul Castro earlier this year.
All this time he had been separated from his wife Adriana Perez, yet, to
the surprise of many she was nine months pregnant when he returned to
Cuba in 2015. What hadn't been revealed was that in an unusual
diplomatic gesture of good will, officials on both sides had worked to
send Hernandez's sperm to Panama, so that the couple could have a child
through artificial insemination.
Hernandez's surprise release, and the story involving his wife and their
baby, which may never have been born, was a key ingredient in secret
negotiations leading to a historic agreement to end more than half a
century of hostilities between the US and Cuba.
Now, for the first time, Hernandez and his wife share the story of his
imprisonment and release, Perez's experiences, how Hernandez posed as a
Puerto Rican graphic artist in the US before his capture and how their
child was conceived in a diplomatic move, as they talk to Al Jazeera in
Havana, Cuba.
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