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April 21, 2025—San Salvador: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who is in controversy, has handed over a prisoner exchange offer to Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro: bringing back home 252 Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States and now detained—under El Salvador’s most secure prison, they would be sent to the US. In return, Venezuela is willing to release an equal number of political prisoners retained in Venezuela.
El Salvador’s Seeks Deal with Venezuela Over Deported Migrants
The data of Venezuelans who were forced to leave their country were received by El Salvador as a part of the US’s campaign against those they believed were the diabolical components of the Tren de Aragua. However, media reports indicate that most of these individuals lack legal charges or clear evidence against them.
The underlying motive of the president’s offer of a humanitarian gesture was also to achieve the release of the “upper-class profile” of detainees in Venezuela, the intellectuals, the press, the lawyers, and the opposition leaders. It was the same Bukele who called for the full release of nearly 50 non-Venezuelan citizens, including U.S., German, and French, who were detained in Venezuela.
That was once voiced by the Venezuelan side. The proposal, which was significantly outlined, was answered as being “cynical,” and it was added that the Salvadoran leader was in the same position as those who had crossed the Rubicon, having taken hold of the illegal deportees from the United States and thrown them into El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT.
The mass deportation of foreigners by the U.S. administration has found itself in a legal battle with its opponents, whereas the U.S. Supreme Court has just put on hold pending further settlement of the case under a wartime law following an application submitted by the ACLU.
Due to the rising inspections across the globe, Bukele is resolute that his side is open to solving the matter through diplomatic means, stressing the humanistic roots of the proposed exchange.
