Saturday, 10 January 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha

Gerardo Hernández meeting with the CDR in Arroyo Naranjo.
Photos: Bill Hackwell
Jan. 7, 2026
From Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, the national coordinator of Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), has a large office on the top floor of the organization’s headquarters on the busy Línea Avenue in Havana. The problem is you will never find him there. Hernández, one of the Cuban Five heroes who spent 16 years in U.S. federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti-Cuban terrorists operating with impunity in South Florida, is making up for lost time circulating around Cuba, listening to the needs and problems of the people at the community level while engaging in homegrown methods of solving them.
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