""Two missiles struck the area directly," Jimenez wrote on Telegram referencing the mathematics center, per AFP which translated the comment. "The attack was total: these areas housed servers and equipment essential to our computer networks that were completely devastated." The minister characterized the attacks as an "unprecedented act of imperial aggression.""
""Tons of medicine burned to ash, tons of food," Teran said in a video posted on social media. "Here are the results of what the bombs and missiles of the United States government have done... to destroy our warehouses full of medicine and food.""
US air strikes over the weekend killed at least 56 soldiers and destroyed multiple non-military targets across Venezuela. Footage shows an obliterated building that housed the mathematics department at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), with four other IVIC buildings—physics, chemistry, ecology, and nuclear research centers—also targeted and devastated. Servers and essential computer-network equipment were completely destroyed. A medicine warehouse in La Guaira burned, consuming tons of medicine and food. The IVIC sits nearly 11 miles from Fuerte Tiuna, the military installation from which President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were kidnapped by US special forces. The reasons for targeting remain unclear; numerous civilians also lost their lives.
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