"Wasp Network" AIRING On Netflix!!
Today is December 16th, 2020. It is the FOURTH BIRTHDAY in Havana for Gerardito and Ambar. The adorable twins are the children of Gerardo Hernandez and his wife Adriana. Because of their parents, Gerardito and Ambar are integral parts of the tumultuous historic and topical relations between Cuba and the United States.
You see, the now 55-year-old Gerardo Hernandez is the most famous of the five Cubans who are known to history as the Cuba Five. The photo above takes us back to mid-December of 2016 when the twins, Gerardito and Ambar were born. The little girl in the middle above is Gemma, shown as she is trying to touch her newborn sister Ambar who was being held by Gerardo. Gemma was born in Havana on January 6, 2015 while Gerardo was serving a sentence of two life terms plus 15 years in a U. S. federal prison in California...while the other four members of the Cuba 5 were serving long sentences in four other separate U. S. federal prisons. In Havana Adriana knew that her husband Gerardo was destined to die in his California prison. But she desperately wanted to give birth to Gerardo's biological baby. Yet, the U. S. government refused Adriana's pleas to even visit California to merely see Gerardo and surely there was no chance of a conjugal union. But...two important Americans -- President Barack Obama and Senator Patrick Leahy -- did listen to Adriana's pleas. Obama & Leahy arranged for Gerardo's sperm to be flown to Havana from his prison cell in California. It was used to impregnate Adriana!!!!!! And on January 6, 2015 the little girl Gemma was born!!!!!!
So these two men -- Senator Patrick Leahy and President Barack Obama -- have had the most guts and power to do the most decent input in the long history of U.S.-Cuba involvements. They are shown above aboard the presidential aircraft Air Force One on their flight to Havana in March of 2016, near the end of Obama's two-terms/8 years as President. In Havana Obama and Leahy reopened the U. S. Embassy in Havana for the first time since 1962 and did many other brave and decent efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. Of course, one of the things these two men did was to arrange for Gerardo Hernandez's sperm to be flown from his California prison all the way to Havana to impregnate his wife Adriana whose baby turned out to be the now 5-year-old little girl named Gemma.
On March 31th, 2020, Senator Leahy turned 80-years-old and his friend, former President Obama, was beside him to watch him cut his birthday cake. Born in 1940 in Montpelier, Vermont, Mr. Leahy has represented that state in the U. S. Senate for six 6-year terms, since 1974. During his political career, Senator Leahy has displayed more intelligence, more guts, and more decency related to U.S.-Cuba relations THAN ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING. A mother of three children in Havana named Adriana Hernandez is among the people what have been blessed by the decency and astuteness of Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
A powerful movie named "WASP NETWORK" is now powerfully showing on the ultra-powerful Netflix network. It tells the gripping story of the Cuba 5. The superb cast includes Penelope Cruz. And Gael Garcia Bernal plays Gerardo Hernandez whose twins Gerardito and Ambar turned 4-years-old today {Dec. 16-2020} in Havana.
Above is a You Tube video that discusses and shows some of the scintillating highlights from the movie "WASP NETWORK".
But in Havana and in all of the island of Cuba, the Cuba Five are heroes of the HIGHEST ORDER. Cubans honor them daily because they consider their bravery in going to Miami to observe groups and individuals was because they believed there were elements there planning to commit terrorist acts against innocent Cubans, and the Cuba Five then would inform the U. S. FBI about the information they discovered. After being arrested, the Cuba Five were sentenced in a Miami federal courtroom to exceedingly long prison sentences...only to finally being incredibly released and returned as super-heroes to Cuba thanks to the amazing efforts of President Obama and Senator Leahy.
And so...that's why/how the most famous of the Cuba Five, Gerardo Hernandez, who served 16 years in a California federal prison, incredibly was released from his two life terms+ 15 years sentence thanks to the efforts of President Obama and Senator Leahy. This photo shows Gerardo and his wife Adriana in Havana with their three children -- 5-year-old Gemma and the twins Gerardito and Ambar. Today -- Dec. 16th, 2020 -- is the 4th birthday for the twins.
This gorgeous photo shows Gerardito kissing his sister Ambar on their Fourth Birthday today -- Dec. 16, 2020.
The truly amazing saga of how Gerardo Hernandez's three children got to be born in Havana surely constitutes one of the greatest episodes in the amazing history of U.S-Cuban Relations. And, incredibly, that story is brilliantly told in the movie depicted above -- "WASP NETWORK" now showing on Netflix.
Above is a video Netflix preview of WASP NETWORK.
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