El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has proposed a prisoner exchange with Venezuela, suggesting his nation send 252 Venezuelan deportees from the United States to Venezuela in exchange for the release of an equal number of political prisoners held in Venezuela.
Bukele requested that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 political prisoners. He listed family members of high-ranking opposition figures, journalists, and activists imprisoned in Venezuela following electoral suppression last year.
Bukele stated that these individuals are imprisoned solely for their opposition to Maduro and his alleged election fraud. Nonetheless, he offered to negotiate a humanitarian agreement that would include the repatriation of all 252 Venezuelan deportees in return for the release and surrender of an equal number of political prisoners in Venezuelan custody.
The proposal was met with criticism from Venezuela’s chief prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, who accused El Salvador of unlawful imprisonment of the Venezuelan nationals.
On Saturday, the US Supreme Court indefinitely suspended US President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants suspected of having ties to gangs.
At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing the Supreme Court to dismiss the American Civil Liberties Union’s request on behalf of the migrants.
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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/el-salvador-bukele-suggests-prisoner-swap-with-venezuela/a-72295555?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
