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Posted on October 8, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 3: How My Mother Got Our Family Through A Revolution (1958, Caracas)

Josefina and Janie, Caracas 1955

My mother never imagined that she’d be a part—time diplomat, mother of two bilingual kids, boss to a live-in maid, figuring out how to get through a revolution.

Posted on October 1, 2021October 8, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid · 1 Comment

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 2: The Mob Comes Roving (Caracas, 1958)

My parents, sister, and me at the Rome Embassy

“They’re looking for PJ’s head honchos,” my father said. “Russ just had a mob in front of their house thinking his diplomatic plates were Venezuelan issue for the regime.”

Posted on September 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by RealEmbassyKid

EMBASSY KID: A MEMOIR. Episode 1: The Dictator Flies Over Our House (Caracas, 1958)

Ernest Hamlin Baker, TIME magazine cover 2/28/55

The Venezuelan dictator flew over our house on his way into exile.

Posted on February 11, 2019October 23, 2020 by RealEmbassyKid

Venezuelan Diplomacy, Part III

Mom lay listening to the looters shuffle by, wondering how she had ended up in a South American revolution 3,000 miles from home. None of it made any sense.

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