LIMA, Peru — Former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Eric Nelson says the Trump-Vance administration has tarnished the U.S.’s standing around the world.

“We’ve really lost our way in terms of understanding what our strengths are, what our values are,” he told the Washington Blade on Sept. 26 during an interview in the Peruvian capital.

Nelson was the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2019-2022. He is one of five openly gay men who were ambassadors during the Trump-Pence administration. (Richard Grenell was ambassador to Germany, Randy Berry was ambassador to Nepal, Jeff Daigle was ambassador to Cabo Verde, and Bob Gilchrist was ambassador to Lithuania.)

Nelson, a career Foreign Service officer who is now retired, in 1992 co-founded GLIFAA, an association of LGBTQ F

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