SAN Salvador, El Salvador – The president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele proposed to hold out an change of prisoners with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting that he would have exchanged Venezuelani deported from the United States that his authorities continued to imprison for what he known as “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
In a submit on the X social media platform, Bokele listed numerous members of the excessive -level opposition household information in Venezuela, journalists and activists held throughout the electoral repression of the federal government final yr.
“The solely purpose they’re imprisoned is to have opposed you and your electoral fraud,” he wrote. “However, I wish to suggest a humanitarian settlement that features the return of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who’ve been expelled, in change for the discharge and rendering of an similar quantity (252) of the 1000’s of political prisoners that happen.”
He arrives when El Salvador was subjected to robust worldwide management for accepting the deportees from Venezuela and El Salvador deported by the Trump administration, who accused them of being alleged members of the gang with few assessments. The deportees are locked up in a “mega-program” generally known as the terrorism confinement middle (Cecot), constructed by the federal government of Bukele throughout its repression of the nation’s gangs.
The controversy continued solely after it was revealed that an American citizen, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was amongst these deported and the courtroom battles fought in battle for his return.
The criticisms continued on Sunday, with the archbishop of El Salvador, José Luis Escobar, who requested for Bakele not “to permit our nation to develop into an ideal worldwide jail”.
Despite the controversy, Sunday Bakele claimed that every one the individuals he saved in jail was “a part of an operation towards gangs such because the Tren de Aragua within the United States”.
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