The Daily Journal. — Bradley Hansell, intelligence chief at the U.S. Department of War, made an official visit to Venezuela over the weekend as part of a regional security tour that also included Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs and senior adviser to the department’s secretary, confirmed the visit.
According to the U.S. military spokesperson, Hansell held high-level meetings in Caracas.
The tour forms part of Washington’s hemispheric security agenda, which the United States coordinates with strategic allies in the A3C bloc, an alliance known as the “Shield of the Americas,” comprising Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Panama and Paraguay.
