El Salvador wants to exchange migrants set out by US with prisoners in Venezuela

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador wants to exchange the United States of Venezuelan migrants for 252 against the same number of ‘political prisoners’ who are stuck in Venezuela.

In A message on X Widowed Bukele on Sunday to his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro to hand out the prisoners. « I want to conclude a humanitarian agreement consisting of repatrolizing 100 percent of the 252 Venezuelans who have been deported in exchange for the release and extradition of 252 of the thousands of political prisoners you hold. »

This includes a journalist, a human rights lawyer and the mother of the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. He also mentioned nearly fifty prisoners of other nationalities, including American, German and French citizens and also a Dutchman.

« In contrast to our prisoners, many of whom have murdered and some have committed rapes, your political prisoners have not committed any crime, » Bukele writes to Maduro. « The only reason they are in prison is because they were against you and your election fraud. »

Over Venezuelan migrants set out by the US to El Salvador, Bukele previously concluded an agreement with US President Donald Trump. El Salvador gets millions for that. Trump and Bukele both say that it is only about dangerous gang members, but according to American media and human rights organizations, that is not at all the case in most cases.

Nicolás Maduro had not yet responded local time on Sunday evening to Bukele’s proposal.

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