Pentagon quiet on Venezuela options

Military Times: A day after National Security Adviser John Bolton flashed a notebook suggesting 5,000 U.S. forces could be dispatched to respond to the internal crisis in Venezuela, the Pentagon was mum on whether or not that was a real option under consideration.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters in a briefing Tuesday that the Pentagon was monitoring the evolving upheaval in Venezuela that has boiled for months and led to severe food shortages, skyrocketing inflation and rioting.

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