Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) and member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba, posted on his Facebook profile an image of a billboard that labels Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Cuban-American congress members María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, and Carlos Giménez as "traitors," accompanied by the brief comment "Traitors!" and the hashtags #Cuba #CDRCuba #CubaNoSeRinde.
The billboard that the former Cuban spy decided to disseminate is not new: it was placed on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami in April 2025, near Medley, and was funded by the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus.
The poster, with a red background and white text, displays the faces of the four Republican lawmakers along with the message "TRAITORS / To immigrants / To Miami-Dade / To the American Dream," alongside the call "Protect TPS / Protejan TPS" and the Venezuelan flag.
The original campaign emerged in response to the stance of those congress members regarding the elimination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans and Haitians driven by the Trump administration.
Abel S. Delgado, president of the caucus that funded the billboard, then accused the lawmakers of having "turned their backs on immigrant families and remained silent while their communities were targeted, detained, and deported."
By appropriating that message of democratic origin, Hernández uses it as propaganda for the Cuban regime against figures in exile and Cuban-American politics, a pattern he frequently repeats on his social media.
It’s not the first time that the former spy has targeted these congressmen. In April 2026, Hernández expanded his criticisms of Salazar, Díaz-Balart, and Giménez in a message about homeless people in Miami, and in July 2026 he mocked protests by the Cuban exile community in Miami related to operations by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In January 2026, Hernández had already used the same term to disqualify those calling for U.S. intervention in Cuba, stating that "one must be a traitor to ask for a foreign power to bomb their own people."
Hernández is one of the so-called "Five Heroes" in the official Cuban narrative. He was the chief of the Wasp Network, the Cuban espionage network operating in U.S. territory, and was convicted in 2001 for conspiracy to commit espionage, with charges related to the shooting down of two civilian aircraft belonging to Brothers to the Rescue on February 24, 1996, in which four people died.
He was released in December 2014 as part of the diplomatic thaw between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro, and since then the regime has elevated him to a public figure.
Hernández's post came more than a year after that "banner war" in Miami sparked its own response: another banner appeared in Hialeah featuring the faces of Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Díaz-Canel, Maduro, Hugo Chávez, and Daniel Ortega, labeling them as "the real traitors."
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