Embassy of the United States
Caracas,
Venezuela
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STEPHEN G. McFARLAND Deputy Chief of Mission |
Stephen G. McFarland, Deputy Chief of Mission, is a career Foreign Service Officer. He served most recently as Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy Guatemala from 2000 to 2003, and served as Charge d'Affaires ad interim from June 2002 until December 2002. Prior to arriving in Guatemala he was named Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Asuncion in 1997 and served as Charge d'Affaires from May 1999 until July 2000. In July 2003, he will begin his assignment as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. McFarland entered on duty in the Foreign Service in 1976, and served as a vice consul in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and as a commercial and then political officer in Quito, Ecuador. After a tour as Nicaragua Desk Officer in the State Department, he was assigned in 1985 to Lima, Peru as the terrorism and human rights reporting officer. In 1988 he was stationed in San Salvador as the Political Counselor. He was subsequently Political Counselor in La Paz (1990-92) and in Lima (1992-96). He represented the U.S. on the interim cease-fire monitoring team at the PV-1 outpost during the Peru-Ecuador Border conflict in 1995. He has received three State Department Superior Honor Awards, an interagency reporting award, and two Group Superior Honor Awards. Mr. McFarland was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He grew up as a Foreign Service brat in Costa Rica, Cyprus, Lebanon, Texas, Turkey, Peru and suburban Washington, D.C. He majored in economics at Yale University (1972-76). He attended the Platoon Leaders Course in the USMCR in 1973, and took the State Department Mid-Level Officers Course in 1982-83. He graduated from the Air War College in 1997. His foreign languages are Spanish and Guarani. Mr. McFarland is married to Karin Mendoza. A former ballet dancer, she studied mechanical engineering at George Washington University. She has worked as a contractor at USAID Missions in San Salvador, La Paz, and Lima, and with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Lima. The McFarlands have four sons.
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