El Salvador President, Nayib Bukele, on Sunday, proposed a prisoner swap which would see Venezuelans deported from the United States to his country exchanged for “political prisoners”; in Venezuela.
Bukele suggested this in comments directed at Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
He said the two countries could reach a “humanitarian agreement”; amid Caracas’s demands for the repatriation of Venezuelan deportees.
Bukele said he would be prepared to repatriate 252 Venezuelans currently detained in a Salvadoran maximum security prison in exchange for “an identical number of the thousands of political prisoners that you hold”;.
“Unlike our detainees, many of whom have committed murder, others have committed rape, and some have even been arrested multiple times before being deported, your political prisoners have committed no crime.
“The only reason they are imprisoned is because they opposed you and your electoral fraud,”; Bukele said on X.
Bukele then listed people being held in Venezuelan prisons, including Rafael Tudares, the son-in-law of exiled former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González, and Corina Parisca, the mother of opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado.
