Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.

In a post on the social media platform X, directed at President Nicolás Maduro, Bukele listed off a number of family members of high-level opposition figures in Venezuela, journalists and activists detained during the South American government’s electoral crackdown last year.

  • hedhoncho@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    So he’s gonna use Abrego as leverage for an el Salvadoran pow. Well just keep him safe. Still hate Bueller.

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      2 days ago

      Abrego is Salvadoran, not Venezuelan. Bukele would be trading the other inmates, who are mostly Venezuelan.