In a new opinion column, the Miami Herald underscored the hypocrisy surrounding María Elvira Salazar’s relationship with alleged Cuban spy Manuel Rocha.
Rocha was arrested this past weekend on charges that he spied for the Cuban government for roughly 40 years. The charges revealed Rocha repeatedly called the United States “the Enemy” and cozied up to far-right U.S. politicians.
María Elvira Salazar accepted campaign donations from Rocha totaling $750 and now plans to return those contributions back to her campaign donor, Rocha, after getting inundated with public scrutiny.
Read the Miami Herald’s latest column below.
Miami Herald: It’s no coincidence that the alleged Cuba spy peddled Trump and right-wing politics | Opinion
Fabiola Santiago | December 08, 2023
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Rocha may have been a secret agent for a third-world country, as the U.S. Justice Department charges, and a valuable asset to help sustain the longest-lasting dictatorship in the Americas, one that keeps people poor and repressed, but he enjoyed the good life of an elitist conservative in Miami — until now, a respected one.
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The campaign of Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, a bitter critic of President Biden and Trump supporter, a former journalist who in 1995 got an exclusive and controversial one-on-one interview with none other than Fidel Castro.
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