El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed, on Sunday (20), an agreement to send 252 US deported Venezuelans and arrested in his country to Venezuela in exchange for “political prisoners” held in Venezuela.
In an X post, Bukele asked the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to deliver 252 of the thousands of political prisoners that you keep in prison, ”according to your proposed agreement.
The Salvadoran leader did not say if the prisoners would be arrested again after the exchange.
The Ministry of Communication of Venezuela did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Among those Bukele proposed for the release of Venezuela are journalist Roland Carneno, human rights lawyer Rocio San Miguel and Corina Parisca de Machado, mother of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
He also mentioned almost 50 detainees from other nationalities, including US, German and French citizens, as part of the proposed exchange.
Last month, President Donald Trump’s government deported at least 200 United States Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing the deportes of being members of the Aragua’s Tren criminal gang.
The US is paying $ 6 million to El Salvador to stop migrants at its high -security terrorist confinement center.
The Venezuelan government said it had no political prisoners and that prisoners were convicted of crimes. However, non -governmental organizations (NGOs) claim that more than 800 people are detained for political reasons.
The Venezuelan government also denied that the US -deported Venezuelans have gang connections, and detainees said migrants have no ties to criminal groups.
On Saturday (19), the US Supreme Court temporarily prevented the Trump government from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of gang connections under a rarely used war law.
This content was originally published in El Salvador proposes the mature agreement by Venezuelans deported from the US on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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