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No.
58739-004
U.S. Penitentiary-Lompoc
3901 Klein Blvd.
Lompoc, CA 93436
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo was born in Havana on June
4, 1965, the third and youngest son of Gerardo Hernández
Martí, since deceased, and Carmen Nordelo Tejera. He
spent all his childhood in the Havana suburb of Víbora.
He studied at his neighbourhood primary school, where he received
several awards for his activities as a Young Pioneer, Cuba's
children's organization.
He
completed his junior high school education occupying different
levels of responsibilities and finishing among the top students
in his class. He began high school studies in 1980, and was
elected as municipal delegate to the FEEM, the Union of Junior
High and High School Students. In the 11th grade he was elected
member of the Municipal Council of the FEEM.
Between 1983 and 1989 Gerardo studied at the Higher Institute
of International Relations, finishing with excellent results.
During his university studies he was outstanding for his participation
in amateur festivals organised by the National Students Union,
the FEU, as part of a theatre group and as a caricaturist.
In 1988 he married Adriana Pérez O'Connor, a graduate
in chemical engineering and specialist at the Food Industry
Research Institute. He went to Angola in 1989 to take part
in an internationalist mission that earned him several medals
and awards for bravery in combat.
During the 90's he took part in missions in the United States
directed at preventing terrorist actions against Cuba, organized
and carried out by counterrevolutionary groups in Miami. While
in the United States he worked as a graphic artist.
Gerardo has the full support of his wife, Adriana Perez O'Connor,
his mother, Carmen Nordelo Tejera, who was born in the Canary
Islands and came to Cuba in 1950, and his surviving sister,
Isabel Hernández Nordelo, all of whom work tirelessly
to gain his release.
In addition to the general conspiracy count (Count 1) and
the conspiracy to commit espionage (Count 2), Gerardo was
the only defendant charged with Count 3, conspiracy to commit
murder by the alleged unlawful killing of the four Brothers
to the Rescue pilots by the shooting down by Cuban air force
Mig pilots, in a disputed air space, on February 24, 1996.
He was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment plus 15
years.
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