A former career U.S. diplomat says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades.

“Ambassador Rocha,” as he preferred to be called, was well known among Miami’s elite for his aristocratic, almost regal, bearing befitting his Ivy League background. His post-government career included time as a special adviser to the commander of the U.S. Southern Command and more recently as a tough-talking Donald Trump supporter and Cuba hardliner, a persona friends and prosecutors say Rocha adopted to hide his true allegiances.

Give this man an Oscar.

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    75·
    9 months ago

    I choose to believe this guy also did 8d chess shit to get Morales elected

    Rocha’s off the cuff remark weeks before the 2002 Bolivian general election threatening to cut American aid to Bolivia over Evo Morales’ support for the coca growers movement has been credited with boosting Morales’ Movement for Socialism party in the 2002 Bolivian general election - after that Morales called Rocha his best “campaign manager”