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Former United States Ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday (Apr. 12) after admitting to acting as an agent of Cuba in what the Justice Department called one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the US government. Reuters reported that Rocha, 73, served as Washington’s ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002. After being initially charged in December, he pleaded guilty to two charges, including acting as an illegal foreign agent. The former diplomat secretly supported Cuba’s ruling Communist Party and aided the country’s …

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