El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners

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The President of El Salvador Nayeb Bokley offered to return 252 Venezuelas who were deported to his country by the United States in exchange for the “political prisoners” held by Caracas.

Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, agreed to keep the two halls from the United States in the maximum fame in the name of CECOT for a fee. The Trump administration has claimed that Venezuelan immigrants belong to criminal gangs, including Treen de Aragoa, which is appointed Washington as a “terrorist organization”.

However, some immigrants were not convicted or accused of a crime, and they were deported to El Salvador last month despite the court’s order to block this step.

The Trump administration in the court this month admitted that one of the migrants was wrongly deported because of an “administrative error”, and some of the men who agreed to return to their mother country occurred, family members told the Financial Times.

Bukele wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday that men can be sent to Venezuela in exchange for the same number of “political prisoners” kept by the regime of President Nicholas Maduro under a “humanitarian agreement”.

“Your political prisoners did not commit any crime,” he wrote.

The President of El Salvadouran did not specify the fate of the prisoners who will be accepted from Venezuela.

A Venezuelan government spokesman did not immediately respond to the comment.

Bokley has a close relationship with the administration of US President Donald Trump, whose officials praised his crime -based relatives.

But the deportations – which were published by Washington and a agent posted on social media, and published photos and videos of men who have shave heads, and hit the chains – led to a general condemnation of Democratic rights and politicians.

Chris Van Holin, a Senate member of Maryland, traveled this week Salvador and met Kilmar Abrago Garcia, who has admitted the Trump administration that he had been mistaken.

The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that the White House should “facilitate” the return of Abu Garcia, but the agent refused to help him back home.

If Maduro accepts the deal, it may reduce the political pressure on the Trump administration, which has been accused of the procedure of the detained legal procedures. On Saturday, the Supreme Court temporarily prevented the White House from further deportations under a rare law used in the eighteenth century.

Maduro, who took over the presidency of Venezuela in 2013 after the death of the socialist revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez, took the coordination of the opposition after a disputed elections in July. According to the Venezuelan rights group foro Penal, there are 903 political prisoners detained in the country, including protesters and opposition leaders.

Among the political prisoners, the aforementioned agent, was Edmundo Gonzalez, a former diplomat who ran against Maduro and considered Washington and many of its allies who won last year’s elections. He also referred to a journalist, Roland Cararino, and opposition leader Maria Korina Machado, whose house was over and over again by government employees.

Maduro also presided over an economic collapse that led 7.7 million Venezuelan – nearly a quarter of the population – to flee the country.

After following the talks initially with Maduro, Trump intensified the “maximum pressure” campaign from his first term in his post, imposing sanctions on the vital oil industry in Venezuela and canceling exemptions from the Biden era granted to international energy groups including Chevron, Ripsol, and ENI.

Last month, Washington announced a “secondary tariff” 25 percent for countries that buy Venezuelan crude, in an attempt to cut money to the Maduro system.