US EditionEl Salvador sends detained Venezuelans home in swap for Americans
EL SALVADOR, JUL 21 – Over 200 Venezuelan migrants were held for over four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison before being released in a swap for 10 Americans detained in Venezuela, officials said.
- On Friday, July 18, 2025, 252 Venezuelan migrants returned to Venezuela at Simón Bolívar International Airport, after months in El Salvador's CECOT prison.
- In March, Venezuela's nationals were sent to El Salvador under rarely used wartime powers, supported by the Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport them without court hearings.
- Repatriated migrants reported, `We had to sleep in a metal cage without sheet or mattresses,` a migrant said, citing inhumane conditions.
- In the exchange, the Venezuelan government announced that five U.S. citizens and five lawful permanent residents will be returned to U.S. custody, Rubio said.
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch denounced the detentions as human rights violations, the rights groups said, and Venezuela's attorney general's office opened an investigation into Bukele for alleged mistreatment.
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By Ivonne Valdés and Marlon Sorto, CNN en Español The Venezuelan Public Ministry released at a press conference on Monday what it presented as testimonies from Venezuelan migrants who arrived in the country through the prisoner exchange with the United States last Friday. According to the recordings, they report mistreatment during their stay in El Salvador's maximum-security prison.
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Venezuela opens an investigation into El Salvador’s Bukele for alleged mistreatment of migrants
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said on Monday that it has opened an investigation into El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment and human rights violations against Venezuelan migrants. The migrants in question spent months detained in a maximum-security prison in the Central American country after being deported by the United Sates. Attorney General Tarek William Saab said his office decided …
Venezuela opens an investigation into El Salvador's Bukele for alleged mistreatment of migrants
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focoinformativo.siteThe 252 Venezuelans freed from the megacarcel of El Salvador gang members arrived in their country on Friday after an exchange of prisoners between Venezuela and the United States. These migrants arrived in two planes to the airport serving Caracas. Dressed in civilian clothes with a red lid, several lowered the staircase with their arms up, one came to kiss the asphalt of the runway. The Venezuelan government noted that it paid the “high price”…
The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Monday the opening of an investigation into allegations of "torture" of its nationals expelled by the United States to a prison for gang members in El Salvador.
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