Patrick Duddy, a retired Foreign Service Officer, is the director of Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Before his retirement from the Department of State, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Caribbean. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Caribbean Policy Consortium.
OPINION — For much of the first two years of the Biden administration, U.S. interest in the Western Hemisphere understandably took a back seat to […] More
OPINION — U.S. – Latin American relations face rocky times. Events during and surrounding the just concluded Summit of the Americas (SOA), a meeting of […] More
OPINION — Instability in Latin America fuels refugee flows, inflation and criminal activity, all of which affect U.S. interests. The Biden Administration’s virtual summit on […] More
Patrick Duddy, a retired American diplomat, is the director of Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. From 2007 to 2010 he served […] More
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 […] More
Venezuela is on the verge of implosion. Inflation has skyrocketed, shortages of food and other basic necessities abound, and Venezuelans are increasingly fleeing the country […] More
Venezuelan opposition leaders and other anti-government protestors flooded to the capital Caracas yesterday to demand a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro sometime this year. […] More
