El Salvador gives Venezuela prisoner trade | EUROtoday

After the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States to El Salvador, the President of the Latin American nation, Nayib Bukele, Venezuela’s left -nationalist head of state Nicolás Maduro supplied a prisoner trade. He proposes a “humanitarian agreement”, Bukele stated on Sunday within the on-line service X. Accordingly, 252 Venezuelan residents deported from the USA to El Salvador ought to be exchanged for the “same number” of “political prisoners imprisoned in Venezuela”.

“All Venezuelans we have in custody were arrested in the United States as part of an operation against gangs like Tren de Aragua,” stated Bukele.

Before the 2024 presidential election, US President Donald Trump had made an election marketing campaign with a tricky course in opposition to irregular migration. Within lower than a month, the United States deported greater than 280 migrants to El Salvador, the place they had been arrested in a infamous excessive -security jail for critical criminals. The US authorities accuses them of being members of the 2 Latin American gangs MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, though there may be usually no proof of this. The Trump authorities put each organizations on the checklist of overseas “terrorist organizations” in February.

Despite allegations of the opposition and worldwide criticism, the authoritarian Maduro was sworn in for a 3rd time period of six years in January. The Maduro, who has been in workplace since 2013, gained the presidential election on the finish of July, based on the official end result, with 52 % of the vote. However, the opposition denounces election fraud. As a end result, violent protests and quite a few arrests occurred.