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A 2020 U.S. Strategy for Latin America

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Posted: December 23rd, 2019

By Ambassador Patrick Duddy

Patrick Duddy is a senior advisor for global affairs at Duke University. During a long diplomatic career, he served in eight countries in Latin America and as the deputy assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere. From 2007 to 2010 he was the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.

Patrick Duddy served as the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 2007 to 2010.  He is now teaches at Duke University where he is also the director of Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Affairs.

As 2019 comes to a close, it is clear the U.S needs to up its game in the Western Hemisphere, an area of immense strategic and economic significance to the U.S.  To date, the Trump administration has focused more or less exclusively on renegotiating NAFTA, pressuring Venezuela and convincing Central Americans to do more to stem the flow of undocumented migrants into the U.S.  There is, however, a lot more happening in the region as recent headlines make clear; the U.S. needs to consider how its interests might be affected by recent developments and what we can do to help resolve the problems that threaten those interests.

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