Ambassador Peter DeShazo, ’69, visiting professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and a former career U.S. diplomat, will discuss the evolution of U.S. - Venezuelan relations leading up to the removal of Nicolás Maduro, potential scenarios for future governance in Venezuela, and what this confrontation signifies for U.S. relations with Latin America. 

In conversation with Dickey Center Director Victoria K. Holt.

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Free and open to the public, no tickets required. Seating not guaranteed -- first come first served. Click here to register for the livestream of the event. 

Presented by the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Davidson Institute for Global Security, co-sponsored by the Department of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies

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Ambassador Peter DeShazo is Visiting Professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Chair of the Globalization Studies Concentration in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Formerly a career U.S. foreign service officer, he was posted in Latin America and the Middle East and served as Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative at the Organization of American States and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. After retiring from the State Department, DeShazo directed the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. and was Executive Director of LASPAU, Academic Programs for the Americas, affiliated with Harvard University. He has taught at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins, at Harvard, and at Boston University. Ambassador DeShazo holds a BA from Dartmouth College (’69) and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.