US helped jailed Cuban spy impregnate his wife
After 16 years in an American prison, Cuban spy Gerardo Hernandez was released last week as part of a historic prisoner swap meant to reestablish relations between the US and Cuba, but the world’s eyebrows raised when he was greeted by his very pregnant wife who is expecting their baby in two weeks. As the U.S. and Cuba secretly worked on reforming diplomatic relations, the U.S. government helped the couple conceive through artificial insemination while Hernandez was serving a double life sentence. Hernandez was sentenced to life for murder conspiracy in connection with the deaths of four anti-Castro Cuban exiles whose planes were shot down off Havana in 1996. SEE ALSO: US-Cuba relations after President Obama’s speech “We can confirm the United States facilitated Mrs. Hernandez’s request to have a baby with her husband,” the US Justice Department said in a statement. “The request was passed along by Senator (Patrick) Leahy, who was seeking to improve the conditions for Mr Gross while he was imprisoned in Cuba.” “She made a personal appeal to Marcelle. She was afraid that she would never have the chance to have a child,” Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who chairs the Senate subcommittee on foreign appropriations, said in a statement. “As parents and grandparents we both wanted to try to help her.” The Miami Herald reported “Call it diplomacy via paternity,” in an article titled “Diplomaculate conception.” “Around the beginning of this year, a first attempt at artificial insemination was made, but it failed. A couple of months later, a second attempt worked. The procedure itself was carried out in Panama and everything was paid for by the Cuban government, ” Tim Rieser, a foreign policy aide to Leahy, said. “The feeling now, in a word? Delirious,” Hernandez told the official Cuban newspaper Granma. “I’m not even going to say love. Delirious is what defines it better.” “It will be a girl called Gema,” the Cuban official media added. SEE ALSO: A huge moment in the history of US-Cuban relationsThe post US helped jailed Cuban spy impregnate his wife appeared first on Voxxi.
After 16 years in an American prison, Cuban spy Gerardo Hernandez was released last week as part of a historic prisoner swap meant to reestablish relations between the US and Cuba, but the world’s eyebrows raised when he was greeted by his very pregnant wife who is expecting their baby in two weeks.
As the U.S. and Cuba secretly worked on reforming diplomatic relations, the U.S. government helped the couple conceive through artificial insemination while Hernandez was serving a double life sentence. Hernandez was sentenced to life for murder conspiracy in connection with the deaths of four anti-Castro Cuban exiles whose planes were shot down off Havana in 1996.
SEE ALSO: US-Cuba relations after President Obama’s speech
“We can confirm the United States facilitated Mrs. Hernandez’s request to have a baby with her husband,” the US Justice Department said in a statement. “The request was passed along by Senator (Patrick) Leahy, who was seeking to improve the conditions for Mr Gross while he was imprisoned in Cuba.”
“She made a personal appeal to Marcelle. She was afraid that she would never have the chance to have a child,” Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who chairs the Senate subcommittee on foreign appropriations, said in a statement. “As parents and grandparents we both wanted to try to help her.”
The Miami Herald reported “Call it diplomacy via paternity,” in an article titled “Diplomaculate conception.”
“Around the beginning of this year, a first attempt at artificial insemination was made, but it failed. A couple of months later, a second attempt worked. The procedure itself was carried out in Panama and everything was paid for by the Cuban government, ” Tim Rieser, a foreign policy aide to Leahy, said.
“The feeling now, in a word? Delirious,” Hernandez told the official Cuban newspaper Granma. “I’m not even going to say love. Delirious is what defines it better.”
“It will be a girl called Gema,” the Cuban official media added.
SEE ALSO: A huge moment in the history of US-Cuban relations
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