El Salvador proposes sending US-deported Venezuelans to Venezuela

El Salvador’s president offers Maduro US-deported Venezuelans for prisoner swap

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has proposed a prisoner exchange with Venezuela, offering to repatriate hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States in exchange for “political prisoners.”

Salvadoran president Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees

Nayib Bukele suggested he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the US his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.

El Salvadore’s Bukele suggests prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuela deportees

Proposal comes as El Salvador has come under international scrutiny for accepting Venezuelans and Salvadorans deported by the US.

El Salvador’s Bukele Proposes Prisoner Swap With Venezuela

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed a swap in which more than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported there from the US would be traded for the same number of political prisoners held by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees

It comes as El Salvador has come under sharp international scrutiny for accepting deportees from Venezuela and El Salvador deported by the Trump administration.

Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday.