Arturo A. Valenzuela (born 1944) is a Chilean-American academic who was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from November 5, 2009, until August 2011. His confirmation had been blocked by Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) due to a dispute over President Barack Obama's approach to the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. He previously served as Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American ...
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Arturo A. Valenzuela (born 1944) is a Chilean-American academic who was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from November 5, 2009, until August 2011. His confirmation had been blocked by Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) due to a dispute over President Barack Obama's approach to the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. He previously served as Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He was previously Professor of Political Science and Director of the Council on Latin American Studies at Duke University. On May 6, 2011 the press reported that Valenzuela would be leaving his government post later in the 2011 U.S. summer to return to his academic activities. The news has not been confirmed by the U.S. State Department.
Valenzuela was born in Concepción, Chile to American Methodist missionaries Raimundo Arms Valenzuela and Dorothy Bowie...
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