{"id":969877,"date":"2021-11-04T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969877"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:13:51","slug":"cubas-top-spy-freed-by-obama-threatens-dissidents-they-underestimate-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cubas-top-spy-freed-by-obama-threatens-dissidents-they-underestimate-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba&#039;s Top Spy, Freed by Obama, Threatens Dissidents: &#039;They Underestimate the Revolution&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcubas-top-spy-freed-by-obama-threatens-dissidents-they-underestimate-the-revolution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969877&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233949339-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez Nordelo, the head of Cuba\u2019s \u201cCommittees for the Defense of the Revolution\u201d (CDR), warned anti-communist dissidents at an event this week that the totalitarian regime would defend itself \u201cat whatever price necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDR are grassroots espionage organizations that operate by appointing&nbsp;<em>chivatos<\/em> (snitches), as Cubans tend to refer to them as, on every block of every neighborhood in the country. These individuals are tasked with monitoring the speech and activities of every person living around them and notifying the communist regime if anyone appears to exhibit displeasure with the Castro family or the political system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez became the head of the CDR after President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/20\/who-are-the-cuban-five-accessories-to-murder-receiving-a-heros-welcome-in-havana\/\">released<\/a> him from prison in 2014. In the United States, Hern\u00e1ndez was a member of an espionage group that came to be known as the \u201cCuban Five\u201d whose operation directly led to the murder of four U.S. citizens. Hern\u00e1ndez infiltrated an anti-communist charity in Florida known as \u201cBrothers to the Rescue\u201d that organized rescue flights in the Caribbean in the 1990s, meant to save wayward refugees on rafts. The Cuban military shot down four American members of the group in 1996; Hern\u00e1ndez was the only person to serve time for their killings.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Obama\u2019s scandalous decision to release Hern\u00e1ndez, the Obama administration paid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article4834107.html\">ship<\/a> Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s sperm to Cuba so that he could sire a child with his wife while still in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Castro regime has branded Hern\u00e1ndez a \u201chero of the Revolution\u201d since his return.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The event this week was a celebration of the work of a low-level spy the regime identified as \u201cAgent Fernando,\u201d a self-proclaimed doctor who had allegedly infiltrated the dissident group planning a peaceful nationwide protest on November 15. \u201cAgent Fernando\u201d accused a dissident protest organizer, Yunier Garc\u00eda, of seeking a violent confrontation between civilians and the Cuban military. Garc\u00eda confirmed that he knew \u201cAgent Fernando\u201d and that the man had seemed suspicious at all times, leading opponents of the regime not to trust him. He also mocked the use of the term \u201cagent\u201d for an individual he said was more of a freelance \u201cinformant\u201d to the regime than an official spy.<br \/>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/diariodecuba.com\/cuba\/1636024575_35308.html\">event<\/a> on Tuesday, Hern\u00e1ndez threatened dissident groups by asserting that the regime was unmasking \u201cAgent Fernando\u201d as a warning that it has so many spies in the ranks of anti-communist groups that it can afford to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey underestimate the revolutionary people who, despite the fact that we know we have problems, that we have to resolve them, we don\u2019t want the peace that we count on in our streets to be robbed from us,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201c[That] citizen\u2019s calm that we have enjoyed for over 60 years \u2026 we are going to defend that at the price that is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cuba: Rinden homenaje los CDR del Cerro al agente Fernando de la Seguridad del Estado\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/of9Yz3ndtUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are many Fernandos in this population, don\u2019t doubt it,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFernando\u201d delivered a brief speech in which he claimed to be a child oncologist and claimed that Cuba often runs out of chemotherapy medications \u201cbecause the enemy of the north [the United States] denies it to us.\u201d In reality, the American economic sanctions on Cuba do not cover medical or humanitarian supplies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. embargo allows humanitarian goods to reach Cuba, and&nbsp;the U.S. government&nbsp;expedites&nbsp;requests&nbsp;to export humanitarian or medical supplies to Cuba,\u201d the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/fact-sheet-provision-of-humanitarian-assistance-to-cuba\/\">clarified<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americateve.com\/gerardo-hernandez\/espia-gerardo-hernandez-organiza-acto-el-barrio-del-medico-agente-la-seguridad-del-estado-n1117898\">awarded<\/a> \u201cFernando\u201d for his efforts with a giant poster of Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Cuban dissident community has largely shrugged off the big reveal. Garc\u00eda, the protest organizer that \u201cAgent Fernando\u201d accused of seeking violent military action, said in a post on Facebook that he was \u201cnot surprised\u201d the man was a&nbsp;<em>chivato<\/em> given his suspicious behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI frankly think they are exaggerating by calling him an \u2018agent.\u2019 For me, he was more like some sort of informant,\u201d Garc\u00eda said.<\/p>\n<p>Another anti-communist activist, biologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2020\/06\/23\/environmentalist-hunger-strike-accuses-cuba-infecting-him-hiv\/\">Ariel Ruiz Urquiola<\/a>, revealed in a livestream that he had met \u201cAgent Fernando\u201d while engaging in a hunger strike in 2016 to demand the regime give medical care to his sister, Omara Ruiz Urquiola, who was in need of cancer treatment. Ruiz Urquiola said that the spy approached him pretending to be a doctor concerned about his health and told him to call off the strike, asserting, \u201cyou won\u2019t achieve anything.\u201d Ruiz Urquiola referred to him in the livestream this week as an obvious \u201chenchman.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Castro regime has escalated its violence against anti-communists and suspected enablers, including apolitical family members, in the aftermath of the July 11 protests across the island. An estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/08\/03\/study-187000-cubans-participated-protests-july\/\">187,000<\/a> Cubans took the streets that day demanding freedom from communism, peacefully assembling and chanting slogans against the regime. Castro state security spent the following days violently repressing dissidents, breaking into homes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/14\/cuba-video-shows-police-shoot-protester-front-toddlers\/\">shooting<\/a> unarmed civilians without cause and disappearing suspected protesters into the political prisoner system.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Cuba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/10\/26\/cuba-communists-weapons-war-dissidents\/\">posted<\/a> a variety of propaganda videos online showing armed civilians practicing what appeared to be an attack on a guerrilla force. Many of them carried firearms despite the fact that private gun ownership is illegal in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/20\/cuba-tasks-spy-obama-freed-anti-protest-popular-vigilance-campaign\/\">announced<\/a> the CDRs would launch a \u201cPopular Revolutionary Vigilance Detail body\u201d to pressure civilians to alert authorities if their neighbors appeared to possess illegal political thoughts \u2013 or, as the regime put it, \u201cfoster denunciations\u201d of \u201ccounterrevolutionaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dissidents have called for another round of nationwide protests on November 15 followed by a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.efe.com\/efe\/america\/sociedad\/el-exilio-crea-un-frente-amplio-en-apoyo-de-paro-nacional-cuba\/20000013-4646512\">national strike<\/a>\u201d to cut profits to the Castro regime and prevent it from functioning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636115365006000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZjjCpZj1Y4KoYbZx6O6mXNsur8w\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636115365006000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFw7XE3kV8FWru-R3bBPzJDFD1DWw\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez Nordelo, the head of Cuba\u2019s \u201cCommittees for the Defense of the Revolution\u201d (CDR), warned anti-communist dissidents at an event this week that the totalitarian regime would defend itself &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}