Former US Ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of spying for Cuba
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha was arrested in Miami on charges of working for Cuba; further details are expected at the court hearing.
A former U.S. diplomat who was the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, has been arrested as part of a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation into on charges of secret service as an agent of the Cuban government. This became known to the Associated Press from its own sources, reports UNN.
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73-year-old Manuel Rocha was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint. It is expected that more details about the case will be to be made public during a court hearing on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Justice has in recent years increased criminalization of illegal foreign lobbying in recent years.
The Justice Department declined to comment. It was not immediately it was not immediately clear whether Roshi has a lawyer, and the law firm where he previously worked said it did not represent him. His wife hung up on him when contacted by AP. contacted by AP.
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Born in Colombia, Manuel Rocha grew up in a New York City workhouse and earned a number of workhouse in New York City and earned a number of humanities degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Harvard, and Georgetown before joining the Foreign Service in 1981. service in 1981.
He served as the top U.S. diplomat to Argentina between 1997 and 2000, when the decade-long program years, when a decade-long currency stabilization program supported by Washington-backed currency stabilization program was collapsing under the weight of huge foreign debt and stagnation, which provoking a political crisis that saw the South American country go through five presidential cycles in two weeks.
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In his next post as ambassador to Bolivia, he directly intervened in the 2002 presidential race, warning weeks before the weeks before the vote that the United States would cut off aid to the poor South American country if it elected former coca grower Evo Morales.
"I want to remind the Bolivian electorate that if they vote for those who want Bolivia to return to exporting cocaine, it will seriously jeopardize any future assistance to Bolivia from the United States
Rocha has also served in Italy, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic, and worked as a Latin America expert at the National Security Council. National Security Council.
