In this episode, BFF Chairman Phil Linderman sits down with BFF Fellow Jose Cardenas, a Washington, D.C.–based consultant with more than four decades of experience in the U.S. political process and inter-American relations.

Cardenas has held senior roles at the U.S. Department of State, the National Security Council, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he served as Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also testified before both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

This conversation explores:

U.S. policy toward Cuba and Venezuela Strategic challenges in the Western Hemisphere The future of American diplomacy in Latin America Key lessons from decades of foreign policy experience

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