Comment by voxleone

These are not mutually exclusive propositions.

Your source, in translation, describes no specific responses, but largely that "The regime ordered the deployment of military and police commands throughout the country".

This is not inconsistent with, say, the US making an offer that Venezuelan military command in charge of air defences couldn't refuse, say, to stand down and not challenge US air supremacy.

I'm not saying that this did happen, but it's one plausible scenario, particularly for a country whose core competency is literally manufacturing US dollars, the most-prized currency worldwide.