{"id":235936,"date":"2026-02-19T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=235936"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:57:53","slug":"top-us-commander-arrives-in-venezuela-on-surprise-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/235936\/","title":{"rendered":"Top US commander arrives in Venezuela on surprise visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The top commander overseeing US forces in Latin America, Gen. Francis Donovan, and senior Pentagon official Joseph Humire made a surprise visit to Venezuela on Wednesday for security talks, Reuters<\/a> writes, citing US officials.<\/p>\n

The trip is the first by a US military delegation since US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a raid last month and whisked him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

Venezuela’s government said the US military delegation met interim President Delcy Rodriguez, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello. The two sides agreed to work together to combat drug-trafficking, terrorism and migration, it added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top commander overseeing US forces in Latin America, Gen. Francis Donovan, and senior Pentagon official Joseph Humire made a surprise visit to Venezuela on Wednesday for security talks, Reuters writes, citing US officials. The trip is the first by a US military delegation since US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a raid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235937,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235936\/revisions\/235937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}