Venezuela's Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino López said that his country has been turned into a "laboratory" for testing new types of weapons by the US government. According to the senior official, on January 3, 2026, Venezuela was subjected to a systematic bombing directed from the United States using the highest-level artificial intelligence, and the US president allegedly acknowledged the use of weapons that had never before been used in combat and were not possessed by other countries. Padrino López linked this "aggression," as he called it, to the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, claiming that a unique military technology was used against the Venezuelan people.
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