Volunteer Bolivia
Greenlee, David N.
Ambassador Greenlee was born on June 3, 1943, in White Plains, New York. He received a BA from Yale University in 1965. He has also studied at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, Spain. He served in the Army from 1968 to 1971, receiving an honorable discharge as a First Lieutenant. His military decorations include the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Vietnam Service Medal, among other awards. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia from 1965-67. He speaks Spanish, French, and Guarani. ... [Read More]
Huddleston, Vicki
Earlier in her career she was Chief of the Economic Sections in the Embassies in Sierra Leone and in Mali. She has worked in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and as Country Desk Officer for Bolivia. In 1988-1989, while working for Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, she drafted the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) legislation which became law in 1990. Prior to entering the Foreign Service she worked in Peru and Brazil for the American Institute for Free Labor Development. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru, she organized the financing for the two housing cooperatives in Arequipa. ... [Read More]
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Department of State Washington File: Transcript: White House Daily Briefing, August 14
MS. BUCHAN: Let me start by running through the President's day. He had his intelligence and national security briefings on board this morning. When he arrives in Milwaukee he will be greeted by a Freedom Corps volunteer, Lucille Woods. Lucille is 74 years old and she has been a foster grandparent volunteer with the Wisconsin Foster Grandparent program since 1997. She spends 20 hours a week working with 2nd graders at the 35th Street School in Milwaukee, to work on their reading skills. And she also volunteers through her church. ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
US DEPARTMENT OF STATEBUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERSINTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRAGEGY REPORTAPRIL 1994SOUTH AMERICA 85 Argentina 87 Bolivia 90 Brazil 95 Chile 100 Colombia 103 Ecuador 109 Paraguay 114 Peru 118 Uruguay 124 Venezuela 127 ARGENTINAI SummaryArgentina is primarily a transit route for Andean narcotics sent to the US and Europe. As elsewhere in the region, domestic consumption of narcotics has risen with increased trafficking. Government and public awareness has increased of the threat posed by narcotics trafficking, money laundering and other attendant ills. The Argen ... [Read More]
-- January 2005, week 4
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Writers on America - Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State
There is an intimate link between writing and being stubborn. I remember the sense of satisfaction I felt waking out of my first and only trilingual dream. It happened after I returned from Paraguay, where I'd spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer living in an isolated village of cotton farmers. Paraguayans are bilingual; everyone speaks both Spanish and Guarani. In my dream, each of the three languages had its own feeling-tone, its own distinct resonance. The dream had to do with the pleasure of translating, and the satisfaction came from being able to balance disparate realities. It took two years of my life to get there. It's taken a lot more stubborn effort than that to write what I began, in Paraguay, to see. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, April 30, 2001
Q: I know that you all made a statement last Wednesday about Walter Poirier, the Peace Corps volunteer missing in Bolivia, and his parents were on national television this morning renewing pleas for further State Department assistance in this matter. I'm wondering if there has been any progress. ... [Read More]
Vol 33 No 4, October - December 1995 Page 30
Once learners have finished, they can volunteer to read their pieces aloud. If they are unwilling to read their papers, the teacher may collect the papers and read them aloud to the class without saying the author's name. ... [Read More]
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