Strategy Matters
By Eric Schoennauer and Tony Mazzoccoli
The Department of State’s strategic planning team agrees that there is no cookie-cutter approach to implementing a strategy. Missions come in many shapes and sizes, relationships with host countries...
Built Together
Above: Artist’s rendering of the new chancery building. Image courtesy of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations
By Rob Force
This year marks the 70th anniversary of bilateral relations between the United States and Indonesia and...
Beginning Anew
Above: A nighttime view of Matamoros’ new consulate building. Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
By Moises D. Mendoza
For Alexander Raley, project director for Matamoros’ new consulate general, the weeks leading up...
A Defector’s Journey
By Alexandra Langford
Many defectors from North Korea brave journeys of thousands of miles, hazardous crossings, years of hardship apart from their families and the threat of exploitation and repatriation in their perilous flight to...
Québec City
Above: Consulate General Québec City staff members gather in front of the consulate building on a beautiful fall afternoon in Vieux Québec. Photo by Isaac D. Pacheco
By Isaac D. Pacheco
In 1834, more than three...
Appointments | September 2019
Lynda Blanchard - U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia
Lynda “Lindy” Blanchard of Alabama is the new U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia. Blanchard was previously a senior advisor at B & M...
Historic preservation creates opportunity
By Jennifer Schuett
Situated in the heart of Burma, Mandalay is the country’s last royal capital, a bustling economic hub in the Indo-Pacific region and the site of an Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP)...
In Memoriam | September 2019
John Toscan Bennett, 90, died June 16, in Alexandria, Va. Bennett attended Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California before joining the Foreign Service in 1955. He served in Tunisia,...
U.S. responds to food insecurity in Zimbabwe
Embassy Zimbabwe and USAID are providing food assistance to an estimated 360,880 rural Zimbabweans in response to the critical food security situation during the upcoming lean season, between October 2019 and March 2020, in...
Sports program promotes dialogue between women in Israel
Sponsored by Embassy Jerusalem, the NGO Friendship League for Culture and Sports engages religious and secular Jewish and Arabic women from all over Israel, in the team sport catchball. More than 800 women are...
