A Venezuelan soldier is reported to have given a horrific recounting of the U.S. raid on January 3 that saw them capture and extract Nicolás Maduro.
The covert operation saw Maduro and his wife taken from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and transported to the States. They are currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The finer details of the raid continue to be a source of speculation. How were U.S. troops able to extract the sitting president of another country without launching an invasion? How were they able to overwhelm Maduro’s defences without suffering a single casualty?
We may now have some answers, and they’re every bit as grim as one might expect.
A supposed account from one Venezuelan soldier tells how U.S. forces brought a mysterious weapon to bear, one that left Venezuelan troops experiencing nightmarish physical side effects, including vomiting blood.
The reported firsthand account – shared on social media by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – came from a Venezuelan guard said to have been on duty on the night of January 3.
“We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,” the soldier recalled.
“The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.”
A small group of helicopters — as few as eight, according the guard — then flew in and deployed approximately 20 U.S. troops.
The Venezuelan forces had a strong numerical advantage, but the U.S. troops reportedly attacked with with a technology the soldier had never seen before.
“They were technologically very advanced,” the guard said, as per the New York Post.
“They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.”
The guard claimed that the U.S. forces fired with such speed and accuracy that it felt as though each soldier was discharging 300 rounds per minute.
The U.S. forces are then said to have deployed a mysterious weapon. “At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it,” the soldier said. “It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside.”
The guard recalled: “We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was.”
At the time of writing, the U.S. military has not confirmed the use of such a weapon, neither did the White House immediately respond to inquiries concerning whether the account shared by Leavitt had been verified.
Though it remains a matter of speculation, one potential explanation for the unnamed weapon described above could be the use of directed energy weapons (DEWs).
The technology is said to have the potential to incapacitate targets through focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams.
Speaking to the New York Post, one former U.S. intelligence officer confirmed that the U.S. military has had such weapons in its arsenal for some time.
“We’ve had versions for decades,” the source said.
“I can’t say all of those symptoms. But yes, some.”
The Venezuelan guard who survived the encounter reportedly had a grave warning for others.
“I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States,” he said.
“They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.”
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