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CUBAN national hero Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo was elected to the country’s Council of State today almost six years to the day after he was released from prison in the US.
Mr Hernandez was elected to fill a vacancy in the body which oversees the work of the National Assembly of People’s Power and is accountable to the Cuban parliament after the resignation of Carlos Rafael Miranda.
His nomination was presented by Candidacy Commission president Maria Consuelo Baeza, and more than 500 Cuban deputies debated and voted in a secret ballot during a session of the National Assembly.
Mr Hernandez was one of the Miami Five group of Cubans jailed by the US in 1998 on espionage charges after they tried to prevent terrorist attacks against the island.