Education
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. In 1980 Asencio was - along with a dozen other diplomats - held hostage for 61 days when members of the guerrilla group 19th of April Movement (M-19), led by Rosemberg Pabón, seized the Dominican Republic"s embassy in Bogotá.