Women, children, and children who like to stay at home to watch spy war movies all know that Yu Zecheng is the male protagonist in the TV series "Latent", with ups and downs in the plot, twists and turns, and the acting is very successful and exciting.
never thought that now in the beautiful country, an American version of "Latent" that is more exciting than Hollywood blockbusters has really been staged.
What's going on?
According to Reuters, on April 12, local time, Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as the US ambassador to Bolivia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage by the Cuban government.
Note a few key words, ambassador, Cuba, espionage. this
According to normal logical thinking, it should be the Cuban ambassador who is engaged in espionage activities for the US government!
Who does not yearn for a democratic and free life in a beautiful country? Isn't this asking for hardships and having enough to eat?
So, what kind of person is Manuel Rocha, and why did he act as a spy for the Cuban government?
Manuel Rocha, 73, was born in Colombia and became a naturalized American citizen in 1978. He grew up in New York and received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his master's degrees from Harvard University and Georgetown University.
During his more than 20-year diplomatic career, Rocha held senior positions in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Mexico, Dominica, Cuba, Argentina, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002.
is such a senior diplomat who is "excellent if you learn" according to the old Chinese saying, but in early December last year, he was "fished for law enforcement" by the US FBI and accused of treason, becoming the "Yu Zecheng" of the United States, which is really dumbfounded.
What is even more puzzling is that Rocha is still a typical "right-wing figure". He has repeatedly scolded the Cuban government in official settings, and he is also a big fan of former US President Donald Trump.
"For more than 40 years, Victor Manuel Rocha has served as an agent for the Cuban government and has sought and secured positions within the U.S. government, which would have given him access to much of the nonpublic information within government and the ability to influence U.S. foreign policy," the court documents said. ”
For example, he led the 1996 shooting down of two anti-Cuban Brothers of Rescue aircraft.
He had benefited Cuba by providing false and misleading information to the United States Government and had made false statements in order to obtain travel documents to travel to Cuba to meet with the heads of Cuban intelligence.
What drives Rocha to become a "two-faced man"? Is it money, beauty or something else?
One is that it is for the sake of obtaining money, which is extremely likely to be dragged into the water. Selling state secret information for lucrative remuneration or in exchange for certain promises of benefits from outside forces.
Judging from the cases disclosed by our national security departments, it is not uncommon and common.
The second is to be tempted by beauty, so as to be coerced by the other party. External forces often use the means of seduction to let the "prey" take the bait, and then use coercion and coercion to exert pressure on the individual, and force him to become his own spy through the handle.
Third, they either have a deep hatred, or they are for their own beliefs and values, and they are typical people who dedicate themselves to their ideals.
Let's break it down.
Is Rocha short of money? You know, all the important positions he holds are well paid. After his retirement, Rocha also served as president of a gold mine in Dominica. If you want money and money, you want status and status, you can be regarded as a proper winner in life!
Moreover, since 1962, the United States has imposed an all-round embargo on Cuba, covering food, medicine, fuel and so on.
If the dollar is depreciated against gold, it has already caused Cuba more than a trillion dollars in economic losses.
Cuba is suppressed by the United States, and it is all poor, and it is willing to spend a huge amount of money to buy intelligence?
This is not true.
Nor was he coerced, because a poor and weak Cuban government did not have the capacity to coerce a government official at the level of an ambassador to the United States.
So how did the miracle happen, and why did Rocha risk his life to act as an "undercover agent" for the Cuban government?
Rocha grew up in the United States, graduated from a prestigious American school, and is also an authentic and talented American.
He chose to work for the Cuban government because of his deep dissatisfaction and disgust with US hegemony.
Rocha called the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro a "commander," the United States an "enemy," and proudly declared himself to be a Cuban "mole" who had penetrated into the US foreign policy circles.
He also bluntly said: What we are doing is amazing, more than a Grand Slam!
In fact, in addition to Rocha, there are two other "Cuban espionage cases" that are equally well-known in the United States that have been exposed by the American media.
One was a veteran intelligence analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Anna Belen Montz. After 17 years of covert service to the Cuban government, he "pleaded guilty" in 2002 and was released in January this year after serving years in prison.
The other is Walter Kendall Myers, a former U.S. State Department official, who secretly served Cuba with his wife for 30 years before "pleading guilty" in 2009. In 2010, he was sentenced to life in prison for providing classified information to Cuba;
In the final analysis, all three of them were not motivated by money, but by sympathy and support for the Cuban revolutionary cause, as well as hatred for American foreign policy.
In other words, this is no longer an isolated case in the United States.
Kevin Whitaker, who served as U.S. ambassador to Colombia, said it reflected problems within the U.S. government.
"This case is extremely important because it reveals deep divisions within the U.S. government about Cuba," he said.
In some cases, some of us are in favour of rapprochement with Cuba, while others believe that this is completely impossible. ”
It's not hard to understand that Rocha is a Trump fan.
If he were to vote for the 2024 president of the United States, Rocha would vote for Trump.
In fact, there have always been two different values and worldviews in the United States, and the dispute between two different diplomatic lines has arisen as a result.
As a Democrat and a Republican, what kind of diplomatic lines do they pursue?
The Democratic Party advocates a left-wing line in which the United States assumes world responsibility and even acts as a "world policeman."
Looking at the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula and even the China-India border, aren't they all instigated by the United States behind it, and even adding fuel to the fire?
The right-wing line represented by the Republican Party advocates that the United States should take advantage of its unique geographical location of being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west.
The dispute between these two values and the two lines actually runs through the history of the founding of the United States for more than 200 years.
Over the past 250 years, the left-wing line advocated by the Democratic Party has dominated the United States, which is the root cause of the United States' eventual participation in two world hot wars and the construction of a world order dominated by the United States.
At the same time, the right-wing line advocated by the Republican Party has always existed, and its typical expression is the Monroe Doctrine, which was once very popular in the United States in the 19th century, that is, Europe and the United States each sweep up the snow in front of their own doors and do not interfere with each other's acres and thirds of land.
And after the unsuccessful attempt by the United States to democratize the Middle East world through the war on terror, the right-wing line advocated by the Republican Party in recent years has begun to rise strongly, as exemplified by Trump's election seven years ago and now Trump's comeback.
The Rocha incident is a painful lesson for the US Democratic Party. They continued to impose a blockade on Cuba after the end of the Cold War, and as a result, the Republican Party gained more support from Latino voters.
It is clear that the Democrats need to rethink their policy toward Cuba. Hopefully, Rocha's events will awaken their attention to Latin American issues, otherwise, they will not be able to win in future elections.
Don't look at the current hot war between the United States and Japan, the United States and the Philippines, either this treaty, or the investment, not this exercise or the corridor.
Once Trump returns to power and the far-right conservative line of the United States returns, where will the American diplomatic course go?
Will the various "small circles" that the Biden administration have put together temporarily fall apart?
Will the United States' international credibility and its status as the "world's policeman" be preserved?
These are all big, big, big, big question marks.