Comments below from Patrick Duddy, senior adviser for Global Affairs at Duke University and a former ambassador to Venezuela who worked nearly three decades in the Foreign Service, are available for use in your coverage. “The situation on the ground in Haiti, especially in the capital of Port-au-Prince, is as dangerous as it has been in decades,” says Patrick Duddy, senior adviser for Global Affairs at Duke University and a former ambassador to Venezuela who worked nearly three decades in the Foreign Service. Patrick Duddy, a former ambassador to Venezuela who worked nearly three decades in the Foreign Service, is a senior adviser for Global Affairs at Duke University.