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Salvador reports dozens of Venezuelans detained in exchange for US citizens held in Venezuela, US and El Salvador said on Friday.
The Central America country has sent about 250 prisoners who were imprisoned in their notorious Tecot (terrorism center) in return for 10 US citizens from Venezuela.
It is planned that it is planned that mykets deported from the United States to Salvador will arrive in Mayiketsia, Venezuela later on Friday.
The relationship between the leader of Salvador Bokele and the US President Donald Trump has been significantly warmed in recent months, especially since Booke has agreed to detain deported US migrants.
On Friday, a senior administration official told reporters that there are no more US citizens in Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
“Today, we handed over all Venezuelan citizens detained in our country, accused of participating in the criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TDA),” Bokel said in a report on X.
He said the exchange was made in return for “a large number of Venezuelan political prisoners” as well as US citizens.
In a separate position, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio confirmed the exchange and thanked Buke and US officials.
Initially, Venezuelans were deported by the United States as part of the Trump administration in Salvador earlier this year, according to the law on foreign enemies in 1798, which gives power the US president to detain and deport the natives or citizens of “enemies” of peoples without ordinary processes.
On Friday, a senior official of Trump administration told reporters that Salvador made an “independent decision” to release Venezuelan prisoners – who consider the gang members for humanitarian reasons.
The exchange of Venezuelans for the Americans who promoted Salvador, emphasizes the strong relationship between Trump and Bukel – an independent “coolest dictator in the world”.
“This transaction would be impossible without President Bukele,” the administration official said. “We express a deep, deep gratitude.”
Salvadaran leader visited Trump at the White House in April, where the couple looked friendly when they talked to journalists, they often laughed and joked together.
Bukele supported the deportation of migrants from the United States to the maximum security prison in Salvador.
At the time, Trump said the US “really helps” the US, promoting these detentions, as the president of Salvadaran replied that his country was “very seeking to help.”
At about the same time, Bokel proposed to change Venezuelan deported for “political prisoners”, including members of the Venezuelan opposition activists, journalists and activists detained in state election repression in 2024.
“The only reason they are in prison is that you have confronting you and your electoral fraud,” he wrote in Maduro on X.
“However, I propose a humanitarian agreement that includes repatriation of 100% of 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and surrender of the same number (252) thousands of political prisoners you hold.”
A high administration official said that while the transaction is only concerned with US citizens who are stored in Venezuela, the Trump administration is still actively working on the output of “dozens” of political prisoners stored by the Maduro government.
