The Current Perfidy in El Salvador Harkens Back to a Huge Scandal Under Reagan

The Current Perfidy in El Salvador Harkens Back to a Huge Scandal Under Reagan

It's a small country and we should really just learn to leave it alone.

By José Álvarez, CNN en Español The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, insisted on Tuesday to propose to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, an exchange of people deported to his country and deprived of their liberty in exchange for “political prisoners” of the Venezuelan government that announced the weekend and that has brought a series of marks and disqualifications between both presidents. Through his account of social network X…

The Salvadoran president had proposed to his Venezuelan pair to exchange 252 prisoners detained in El Salvador for the same number of political prisoners.

Nayib Buykele and Nicolás Maduro have braided into an unusual duel. El Salvador’s president offered his colleague to release 252 Venezuelans deported from the United States and housed in the maximum security prison known as the Center for Confining Terrorism (CECOT), in exchange for Venezuela doing the same with “an identical number” of prisoners for political reasons. Maduro used Monday night to give his outrage a religious tone.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called his Salvadoran colleague Nayib Bukele a 'serial violator' of human rights, who had proposed exchanging 252 Venezuelans for 'political prisoners' detained in Venezuela. Read

Nicolás Maduro, who swore for a third term after his questioned re-election, this Monday demanded that the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, abandon the "road of enforced disappearance", after the president proposed to repatriate the 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States in exchange for the release of those considered political prisoners in [...]