At the event held on Tuesday, both dignitaries talked about the support by the North American country for the modernization of the Peruvian Armed Forces, as well as cooperation in the fight against transnational crime and drug trafficking.
John McNamara is a career member of the U.S. State Department's Senior Foreign Service. He assumed the role of Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, of the United States Embassy in Lima in September 2023.
McNamara has served in a variety of Department positions in Washington and abroad.
Previous D.C.-based assignments included working twice at the Office of Mexican Affairs and as the Senior Venezuela Desk Officer in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Abroad, McNamara served multiple tours at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, including as the Political Counselor during the final two years of the Colombian Government's peace negotiations with the FARC.
Additionally, he was assigned in Iraq as a Provincial Advisor in Babylon, and in a later tour, as Deputy of the Ministry of Interior Transition Team in Baghdad.
In two Afghanistan tours, he served as Deputy of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, and in a subsequent tour he led the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs section at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
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