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Oct 20 2018
News
Haley demands UN punish Cuba, Bolivia after ‘mob scene’ at US event for Cuban political prisoners
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is demanding the U.N. Secretary General take action against the Bolivian and Cuban delegations after they disrupted a U.S. event to draw attention to the plight of political prisoners in Cuba -- damaging U.N. property in the process.
Fox News (Online News)Feb 08 2024
Opinion
The Drop in Crime in El Salvador Is Stunning, but It Has a Dark Side
Voters in El Salvador this week gave their tough-on-crime president a sweeping mandate: Keep going.
While votes are still being counted, President Nayib Bukele claims he won re-election by a landslide, with more than 85 percent of the vote. If those results hold when the official count is announced, not even Latin America’s best-known populist presidents, like Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez or
Multiple Writers - CenterDec 04 2023
News
Former U.S. ambassador spied for Cuba for decades: DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that Victor Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, has been charged with acting illegally as a foreign agent for the government of Cuba. A retired American diplomat made his first court appearance Monday in Miami in a potentially explosive espionage case. Prosecutors say Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, spent over 40 years spying for Cuba
CNBCDec 05 2023
News
Indictment: Diplomat’s ‘purpose’ as agent for Cuba was to hand over classified information
A former U.S. ambassador was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Miami on charges of conspiring to act as a secret agent for Cuba over the span of a 40-year career in the State Department and private sector for the “purpose” of turning over classified information to the intelligence service in Havana. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia who was arrested Friday
Miami HeraldDec 04 2023
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Former U.S. official arrested in Miami on charge of being unregistered foreign agent for Cuba
A former U.S. ambassador with a long career in the federal government was arrested Friday on a charge of working secretly for the Cuban government as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, according to two people familiar with the FBI’s counterintelligence case filed in Miami federal court. Manual Rocha, 73, a former ambassador to Bolivia who had also worked as a senior diplomat
Miami HeraldDec 05 2023
News
‘The most damaging Cuba spy’: Rocha’s arrest in Miami rattles U.S. intelligence community
A high-ranking American diplomat who once served at the U.S. mission in Havana appears to have been a spy for Cuba during one of the worst diplomatic crises in years between the two countries. Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia who has been arrested in Miami and charged with secretly working for Cuba as a covert agent, was a principal deputy in 1996 at the U.S. Interests Section
Miami HeraldDec 04 2023
News
Ex-US ambassador arrested for allegedly being secret Cuban spy
A top American diplomat who used to be the US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested for allegedly secretly working as a Cuban spy. Manuel Rocha, 73, was taken into custody in Miami on Friday in what marked the culmination of a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, according to The Associated Press. Two sources told the agency that Mr Rocha is accused of secretly working to
The IndependentDec 04 2023
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Former US ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of serving as an agent of Cuba, AP source says
MIAMI — A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government, The Associated Press has learned. Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court
West Hawaii TodayDec 04 2023
News
Ex-diplomat is arrested, said to be agent of Cuba
MIAMI -- A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba's government, The Associated Press has learned. Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteDec 04 2023
News
Ex-diplomat is arrested, said to be agent of Cuba
MIAMI -- A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba's government, The Associated Press has learned. Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette