LW Interviews: Latvia's Honorary Consul to Texas Peter Ragauss

Latvia Weekly

Listen to Olevs and Otto interview Peter A. Ragauss, who serves as the Honorary Consul of Latvia to Texas, U.S., and a board member at the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation. He is an American Latvian with a strong connection from Latgale — the easternmost and arguably the most distinct part of Latvia. Find out how American, Latvian and Latgalian identities have formed Peter's personality, his way to success in America as a second generation immigrant and ways how he nowadays contributes to Latvia and Latgale in particular. You can also hear Peter's take on the development of Latvia since regaining independence and some ideas of the right way forward.