Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia was, in his own words, “pissed.” It was June 23, 2023, and he was in a Miami food court meeting with a man named “Miguel” whom he believed was working with Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence.
Guy was actively working against the USA for a loooong time.
A bad a case Weaponization of Law Enforcement as you are going to see. Only Trump has been treated worse. Hopefully Trump pardons him along with all the J6 martyrs.
And pulling in big, big bucks working for a prestigious DC law firm. Not any more….
Sentence of up to only 10 yrs seems way to little for betraying the country.
This guy will be the template for all diplomatic appointments under Donnie’s second administration. Donnie gets half though. Donnie will offer ”pay to play” contracts.
The United States be damned. After all that poor Donnie has done to, I mean for the US, look how poor Donnie is being treated. Poor Donnie. Poor Donnie. The US will deserve it. /s
Presume the Cubans have the microwave machines warming up?
Holy Moley! I wonder if any of that information got back to Putin & the KGB?
How dare you question my loyalty! What kind of traitor do you think I am?
Cuban intelligence has been eating the US’s lunch for 60-odd years now. But Putin doesn’t need a Cuban intermediary to know all the US’s secrets.God knows how many assets they have planted here since Jan 20 2017.
Has Rocha been to MAL?
That’s a deeply weird story. Seems a lot of FBI effort to entrap a dude who hasn’t been in the diplomatic service for 21 years. There’s a bunch of something missing here. Sounds like they flipped someone else so they could get to him, but why? He seems like an irrelevant, out of date minnow.
It seems to me that he was clearly still plugged into that world. Take for instance this paragraph:
The criminal complaint provides some hint of what led Rocha to let his guard down with the undercover agent. Along with learning about Rocha’s alleged involvement with Cuban intelligence, U.S. law enforcement seems to have found out specific signals he used with his handlers. In comments quoted in the document, Rocha indicated that he had been expecting someone named Miguel and that it was significant for this person to have referenced “Chile” when they reached out to him.
If he has been out of the game for 20 years, why would he have been expecting contact from them? Sure, he left his government post decades ago, but he could still have plenty of ways to juice his connections for Cuba’s benefit. There are probably things missing, but considering the length of his service, he’s bound to know where a lot of bodies are buried (probably figuratively).
Huh? So you are saying that he should get off because they only just got this proof? Like a Statute of Limitations for spying?
Besides the fact that he betrayed the country maybe they could get some other names and even methods. The reasons are so obvious it makes me think your post was a joke.
I feel sorry for him. it’s easy to see how someone with an Hispanic heritage and a study of international politics could become involved in something like this. After all, the US has an abysmal record in its treatment of much of Central and South America. Marine invasions of “Banana
Republics” at the behest of the United Fruit Co., the CIA’s involvement in the over throw of Chile’s Allende, and in the case Cuba, Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs invasion and maintaining an economically devastating embargo off and on for 65 years!
When I was 14 (1958) I read about Castro, his brother Raul, and Che Guervara in an article that appeared in The Reader’s Digest that explained what the Cuban revolutionaries were attempting to do. I was so impressed, I sent the 26 de Julio organization in New York $10 (a lot of money then for a 14 year old). The Cuban Revolution was a success in spite of everything that the US Government did.
Again I feel sorry for Rocha, but I can find realistic rationales for what he did.
“Here, I’ve brought a report annotating my numerous actions on behalf of the Cuban revolution. And see that at the bottom — that’s my signature. Now don’t you dare question my manhood again!”
If only all sting operations were so well-scripted. 
Planted? Hell some of them are participating in the great American process of electing people to office.
He should be grateful that he doesn’t live in Cuba because if he was caught by them doing this crap, they would kill him. I hope he gets life in prison.
If he wasn’t so far out of the game, he wouldn’t have some half-assed physical contact with code words like something out of a bad cold war fiction novel. He’d have a regular handler. This reads more a desire to make money.
Whatsapp, if it’s good enough for Slenderman and MBS, it’s good enouigh for everyone else’s espionage, too.
Something just doesn’t add up.
21 years ago? Yes he should still be charged, but there are way more useful things for the FBI to investigating (like MBS and Jared Kushner) than this. I wonder who he pissed off to start this up.
It’s more embarrassing for the FBI, not catching up with him for 21 years. And yes I know there’s no statute of limitation on spying, but the FBI should go find some of Putin’s current pals, not some old Cuban has been/never was.