Castro, Joaquin

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● D · HSE · Texas — District 20

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✓ VALIDATED Ending Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships Jul 15, 2026

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Castro, Joaquin. In the reauthorization, Congress deliberately capped DFC's high-income country exposure at 10% of your total contingent liability and 25% of any project's cost. These limits exist because DFC's statutory purpose is to mobilize private capital into frontier markets where it would not otherwise go, no...

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● SPOKEEnding Supply Chain Dependency: Aligning Tools, Capital, and Partnerships

Foreign Affairs Committee

Jul 15, 2026·10:00 AM ·2h 32m ·30 speakers

Castro, Joaquin "In the reauthorization, Congress deliberately capped DFC's high-income country exposure at 10% of your total contingent liability and 25% of any project's cost. These limits exist because DFC's statutory purpose is to mobilize private capital into frontier markets where it would not otherwise go, no..."

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● SPOKEA New Beginning for Colombia

Western Hemisphere Subcommittee

Jul 15, 2026·2:00 PM ·1h 18m ·11 speakers

Castro, Joaquin "Thank you, Chairwoman Salazar, and thank you to Assistant Secretary Weiland and Deputy Assistant Secretary Mendez for joining us today for your testimony. Colombia is one of our closest and most important partners in this hemisphere. For decades, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to bui..."

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States on the Frontlines of Counterintelligence

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More Bang for the Buck: Aligning Commercial Diplomacy Between State and Commerce

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● SPOKEFY27 BIS Budget: the AI Arms Race and the ICTS Office

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Jul 14, 2026·10:00 AM ·2h 40m ·33 speakers

Castro, Joaquin "I appreciate it. Now, I have one more subject that I got to get to in my question. Under Secretary Kessler, transnational criminal organizations continue to fuel instability across Latin America and the Caribbean, as you know, and one of the principal drivers of their power is their access to firear..."