US EditionEl Salvador's Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelans deported from the U.S.
- Nayib Bukele, the Salvadoran President, proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to exchange 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. For political prisoners in Venezuela.
- Bukele asserted that the deportees are imprisoned for opposing Maduro and called it a humanitarian agreement on social media.
- El Salvador's Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas urged Bukele not to let the country become an international prison amid ongoing controversy.
- Venezuela's prosecutor's office rejected Bukele's statements, calling them 'cynical' and labeling him a 'neofascist' while highlighting human rights violations.
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A doll with photographs of Presidents Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump burned on Sunday in Caracas during the burning of Judas, a Easter tradition that was used to protest the sending of Venezuelan migrants in the United States to a Salvadoran jail. The ritual coincided with an offer by the Salvadoran president to his Venezuelan pair, Nicolás Maduro, to exchange 252 Venezuelans under his custody for the same amount of "political prisoners." These V…
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El Salvador offers prisoner swap to Venezuela involving US deportees
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered to swap 252 detained Venezuelans for political prisoners and foreign nationals held in Venezuela. He framed the deal as a humanitarian gesture aimed at freeing opposition figures and journalists. Venezuela pushed back, demanding legal records and accusing El Salvador of violating human rights. The U.S. has backed El Salvador’s detentions, but courts recently paused further deportations amid legal and …
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has proposed this Sunday to the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, an exchange of “political prisoners” in exchange for the 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in the Center for the Confining of Terrorism (Cecot), the megacarcel created in early 2023 in that Central American country. In a publication in his X account, the Salvadoran head of state accused Maduro of havi…
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