Yesterday, Manuel Rocha pled guilty to spying on the U.S. government on behalf of Cuba in federal court. His name might sound familiar because just last December, María Elvira Salazar got blastedforaccepting campaign contributions from the communist agent.
Salazar only said she’d returnthe contributions after public scrutiny. Notably, Salazar was the only politician Rocha gave money to, begging the question as to why Rocha, a communist spy, felt specially aligned with María Elvira Salazar.
The Miami Herald drew the connection between Salazar and Rocha when the shady donations were first exposed.
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.
Rocha’s best disguise: Being the typical polished Miami-Dade MAGA supporter of former President Donald Trump. As such, he joined the local political chorus pushing for Trump to reverse President Obama’s engagement policy in favor of a hard line on Cuba.
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.
In true form, Salazar used a spy outed by the Biden administration to tell the same administration on X in two languages to “wake up!” to Cuba’s spying.
Such is the petty, partisan Miami world of light-weight politicians, a place where spies thrive. Who cares now that she’ll return the donations to a man in jail?
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