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American Diplomat

Jan 25, 2024

Frank Mora, US Ambassador to the Organization of American States, helps us understand a diplomatic win: the (barely) peaceful transfer of power following Guatemala’s election of an outsider who is a threat to the corrupt establishment. Expectations are high, that the new president will both confront those who resist...


Jan 18, 2024

Amb. Tony Wayne is back to go into depth on the US-Mexico border’s two greatest challenges.  How did drug trafficking become even more sinister than it was before?  And can we improve the immigration crisis ahead of the upcoming US election?  What is at stake and what will it take, diplomatically and otherwise, to...


Jan 11, 2024

Did you know that $1.5M dollars in trade cross the US/Mexico border every single minute?  Did you know that 5 million US jobs depend on the trade that takes place there?  Ambassador Tony Wayne explains that the border is a living membrane and trust is the crux of managing conflicting interests and mutual challenges. ...


Jan 4, 2024

Cybercrime has many names but what, actually, is it?  Jim Lewis, former Foreign Service Officer, now Senior Vice President and Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gives us a candid description of cybercrime's mechanics: who does it, why, how, and...