El Salvador’s president slams Venezuela’s Maduro for rejecting his prisoner swap proposal

El Salvador’s president slams Venezuela’s Maduro for rejecting his prisoner swap proposal

US President Donald Trump's immigration policies are reigniting tensions between El Salvador and Venezuela. On Monday, El Salvador's president proposed repatriating 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States to his country in exchange for an equal number of Salvadorans imprisoned in Venezuela—whom El Salvador regards as political prisoners. Romain Michelot and Florent Marchais report.

El Salvador's president slams Venezuela's Maduro for rejecting prisoner swap proposal

Salvadoran president criticises Maduro's rejection of swap for Venezuelan deportees, highlighting political tensions between the two leaders.

The Salvadoran government keeps the group of Venezuelans in a maximum security prison, including suspected criminals from the Aragua Tren gang

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele criticized his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, on Tuesday for rejecting his proposal to exchange migrants deported from the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador for “political prisoners.”

El Salvador's president slams Venezuela's Maduro for rejecting his prisoner swap proposal

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has criticized his Venezuelan counterpart's rejection of a swap that would see Venezuelan deportees from the United States detained in El Salvador exchanged for what he said were “political prisoners” in Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro…

The Salvadoran president questioned the regime's exchanges in the past, saying that he found unfair the fact that he accepted an exchange of 30 by 1 and rejected an equitable proposal of 1 by 1