San Salvador, El Salvador (AP) – The president of Salvador, Nayib Bukele, proposed to carry out an exchange of prisoners with Venezuela, suggesting that he would exchange venezuelans deportees from deportees the United States its government continued to imprison what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
In an article on the X social media platform, directed against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Bukele listed During a number of family members of high-level opposition personalities in Venezuela, journalists and activists detained during the electoral repression of the South American government last year.
“The only reason they are imprisoned is to have opposed you and your electoral fraud,” he wrote to Maduro. “However, I want to propose a humanitarian agreement which includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who have been expelled, in exchange for the release and the delivery of an identical number (252) thousands of political prisoners that you hold.”
Among those he listed was the son -in -law of the former presidential candidate Edmundo González, a certain number of political leaders looking for asylum in the Argentine Embassy of Venezuela, and what he said to be 50 citizens detained by a certain number of different countries around the world.
Bukele also listed the mother of the opposition chief María Corina Machado, whose political leader said was surrounded by the Venezuelan police in January.
Bukele said he would ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador to be in contact with the Maduro government, which did not immediately respond to the position.
The proposal comes as El Salvador was the subject of a vivid international examination for accepting the Venezuelans and the Salvadoran expelled by the Trump administration, who accused them of being members of alleged gangs with little evidence. The deportees are locked in a “mega-prison” known as Terrorism Contest Center (CECOC), built by the Bukele government during its repression against the country's gangs.
The controversy only continued after revealing that a father of Maryland married to an American citizen, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was one of the expelled people, and the judicial battles broke out to fight against his return.
The Archbishop of El Salvador José Luis Escobar alas on Sunday, called Bukele not “to allow our country to become a large international prison”.
Despite the controversy, Bukele argued on Sunday that all the people he kept in the prison were “part of an operation against gangs like the Aragua Tren in the United States”.
