The gambit worked, but three years later, Bolivians elected Morales anyway, and the leftist leader would expel Rocha’s successor as chief of the diplomatic mission for inciting “civil war.”

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/12/03/former-us-ambassador-arrested-in-florida-accused-of-serving-as-an-agent-of-cuba-ap-sources-say/