Meeting between USB and Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo one of “LOS CINCO” Cuban heroes
A meeting was held this morning at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba between the USB International Department and the National Coordinator of the Cuban Revolutionary Committees, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, who for many years has been sequestered with 4 other patriots without any proof in US prisons on charges of being an agent of the Havana services. Present at the meeting was Cuban Ambassador Mirta Granda Averhoff
During the meeting, which lasted around 30 minutes in a very cordial atmosphere, Gerardo Hernandez emphasised the importance for Cuba of solidarity and concrete support from the international workers’ movement and called for efforts to revive the demand for an immediate end to the ‘bloqueo’, the extremely harsh US embargo that has been preventing relations and trade between the Republic of CUBA and the Western world prone to Washington’s wishes for the past 60 years.
The USB reaffirmed its historic brotherhood with the Cuban people and workers, recalled its common militancy within the World Federation ofTrade Union, and pledged its readiness to undertake any action aimed at ending the bloqueo and removing Cuba from the list of nations that support terrorism.
Emphasising once again its gratitude for sending a brigade of Cuban doctors during the Covid pandemic, USB confirmed that its activities will focus, in concrete terms, on relaunching concrete solidarity through a national campaign to collect medical instruments that are in short supply precisely because of the blockade.
Rome, 25 June 2025
USB International Department
