By Yuleidys Hernández Toledo
“The Discombobulator” was the name that US President Donald Trump gave to the unprecedented weapon that US troops used on Saturday, January 3, when they kidnapped the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, and the first lady and member of the National Assembly (AN), Cilia Flores.
The details were offered by the White House occupant in an interview with the New York Post from the Oval Office, where he once again boasted that he “made the equipment” available to Venezuelan troops “not work” when US helicopters invaded Caracas that early morning of January 3.
“Baffling. They won’t let me talk about it,” he stated in the interview published on the website of the media outlet on Saturday, January 24.
“Their rockets never even launched. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they didn’t manage to fire a single one. We arrived, they pressed buttons, and nothing worked. They were ready for us,” he added.
On January 21, during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, while admitting responsibility for the crimes against Venezuela, Trump acknowledged that “Unprecedented weapons were used two weeks ago” in the attack against the Bolivarian nation.
On that occasion, he commented, in what seemed to be a mocking tone toward two major powers allied with Venezuela, “Those defense systems are made by Russia and China, so they’re going to have to go and review their plans.”
Then, on Tuesday, January 20, Trump hinted in an interview that a “sonic weapon” was used in the military aggression carried out by U.S. troops against Venezuela.
“There was a sonic weapon that took out many of the Cuban bodyguards. Is that something Americans should be afraid of?” a NewsNation reporter asked Trump in an interview, to which the president replied: “Nobody else has it. We have weapons that nobody knows about, and I say it’s probably a good thing not to talk about them; but we have some incredible weapons. That was an incredible attack. Don’t forget that house was in the middle of a fortress, a military base.”
On January 10, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt commented on a post by American presenter Mike Netter, who recounted the alleged story of a Venezuelan soldier. Referring to the US military operation against Venezuela on Saturday, January 3, the soldier described how, during a moment of combat, US troops “launched something… I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sonic wave. Suddenly, I felt like my head was going to explode from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose.” Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, motionless.
Venezuela turned out to be a laboratory for the United States. This was denounced on Thursday, January 22, by the Minister of Popular Power for Defense, General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino López, referring to the statements made by Trump in Switzerland.
The US attacks against Venezuela claimed the lives of more than 100 people, including Venezuelan civilians and military personnel, and 32 Cuban soldiers.
On January 13, the Vice President for Political Affairs, Citizen Security, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, denounced that the explosions caused by the Americans were so powerful that some victims must be identified by DNA.
“When we don’t talk about the number of dead or killed, it’s because the explosions were so powerful that, well, there are people whose whereabouts we don’t know; the explosions were so fragmented that it’s impossible to identify them.” This was announced on January 13th at a press conference, where it was stated that the death toll from the bombings launched by the United States against Venezuela on January 3rd “exceeds 100 people killed.”
Cabello announced that the country’s Scientific Police, the National Service of Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Senamecf), with the support of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), are conducting DNA analysis on fragments of human remains left by the bombings launched by the US against Venezuela in the early hours of January 3rd.
International humanitarian law governs the choice of methods and means of warfare, while also prohibiting or restricting the use of certain weapons, as the International Committee of the Red Cross reminds us.
The American Association of Jurists, along with other organizations from various countries, filed a lawsuit on Monday, January 12, before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and other officials of that government, for the crimes of “alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and special consideration regarding the possible classification of hostage-taking for coercive purposes,” committed by the Yankee regime against Venezuela on January 3, 2026.
[ SOURCE: DIARIO VEA / Yuleidys Hernández Toledo ]
