The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukelehe proposed to his pair Nicolás Maduromake a exchange of Venezuelan detainees in their country in exchange for the release of imprisoned political prisoners in Venezuela. The exchange would be for a total of 252 people per side.
The president of El Salvador He made a publication at his time as X where he stressed that all people arrested in his country were arrested “in the framework of an operation against gangs such as the Aragua train in the United States” and not for political reasons. “Unlike you, you have political prisonerswe do not have political prisoners, ”he said differentiating himself from the Venezuelan president.
The Venezuelan dictator had affirmed his desire to ensure that Venezuelan migrants They can return “free”.
Faced with these statements, Bukele He proposed the exchange of detainees. “The almost 50 citizens arrested from other nationalities: American, German, Dominican, Argentina, Bolivian, Israeli, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Spanish, French, Guyanese, Dutch, Iranian, Italian, Lebanese, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Ukrainian, Uruguayan, Portuguese and Czech, ”he explained.
In turn, he informed that those arrested in El Salvador face serious charges, including murders and violationsand that some “had been arrested multiple times before being deported”For the government of Donald Trump. On the contrary, he reiterated that political prisoners in Venezuela “They have not committed any crime” And they are imprisoned “by have already opposed your electoral fraud”
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Mister @Nicolasmaduroyou have said on numerous occasions that you love Venezuelans back and free.
Unlike you, you have political prisoners, we don’t have political prisoners. All Venezuelans we are in custody were arrested in the …
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 20, 2025
Among the names mentioned in his proposal are the journalist Roland Carreño; the lawyer and activist Rocío San Miguel; Corina Parisca Machadomother of the opposition leader María Corina Machado (“Whom they intimidate daily and sabote access to basic services such as light and water”); Rafael Tudaresson -in -law of the elected president Edmundo González; as well as the four asylum leaders in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.
Finally, the president of El Salvador closed his message ensuring that the Foreign Ministry of his country will send a formal correspondence with the proposal, and concluded: “God bless the people of Venezuela”
Nicolás Maduro pointed against Bukele and described his “concentration fields” prisons to his prisons
Two weeks ago, Maduro expressed in a television act that Venezuelan migrants were “sent to the concentration fields of the Nayib Bukele dictatorship in El Salvador ”, where, he said, “They have not allowed their lawyers to visit them.”
“They already have there almost three weeks kidnapped And there has been no possibility that a Catholic priest visit them, are serious crimes against humanity that the Government of El Salvador is committing, ”he said.
As for the accusations of USA who linked him to the Criminal Band Train de Aragua, indicated as a terrorist by Washington, questioned: “Where are the evidence? Where is the trial? Where did they prosecuted them, where? There is no evidence. What judge ordered the deportation, which judge ordered, according to the Law of the United States and international law, what judge ordered that this group of kidnapped boys, migrants, workers prison, a concentration camp? ”He added.
Source: Ambito