"We keep pushing away the very people who would help us accomplish our foreign policy goals"

Luis Moreno was born in New York City and graduated with a BA in History from Fordham University and an MA in Education at Kean College before joining the foreign service. In a long and varied career he held, among other posts, the role of refugee coordinator and the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti; the narcotics affairs director at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia from 1997 to 2001; U.S. consul general in Monterrey, Mexico; deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Israel; political-military affairs minister counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; and U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. Today, he is a member of The Steady State, an organization of nearly 400 former national security officials who remain committed to their oaths to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and which was formed in 2016 in response to rising authoritarian tendencies and the erosion of U.S. credibility and alliances.” On today’s Notes from the World, we spoke about his experiences and the state of U.S. diplomacy today.