Salvadorant President Naib Boukele has suggested an exchange of prisoners with Venezuela, suggesting that he repatriates hundreds of Venezuells who were deported by the United States in exchange for “political prisoners”.
In a publication of the X Boukes, I proposed to exchange 252 Venezuelans currently detained in El Salvador’s Merga Prison for “identical issue (252) of thousands of political prisoners,” he said Venezuela owns, including members of the opposition leaders family.
“Unlike our detainees, many of whom have committed a murder, others have committed rape, and some have even been arrested repeatedly before being deported, your political prisoners have not committed any crime,” says a bouquet in the Mail, which is aimed at Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. “The only reason they are closed is that they opposed you and your electoral fraud.”
The United States and El Salvador say that most of the deported people, imprisoned in Salvador in Sekot, are members of the Venezuelan band Tren de Aragua, and some are members of the Salvadorant MS-13 gang. But officials have provided scarce evidence to show that prisoners have contacts with these criminal groups.
Venezuela’s leader described the deportation of the most Venezuelan migrants as a “abduction” and denied that they were criminals while supporting calls for their return.
CNN addressed the Venezuelan government to comment on the proposed exchange.
Salvadoran’s leader has appointed some of the “political prisoners” imprisoned in Venezuela, including Rafael Tudares, the son -in -law of the candidate for the president of the opposition Edmundo Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, who escaped the country after claiming he had defeated Maduro in the July presidential election, said his son -in -law was detained in Venezuela’s capital in early January, just days before Maduro was discovered.
He also mentions Corina Parisian de Macado, the mother of Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who he believes is facing political pressure.
Bouke also offered to exchange four political leaders seeking asylum at the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela. The group has been sheltered in the facility for more than a year, accused of terrorist activities and betrayal of working with Machado, who says they have done nothing wrong.
Some of the asylum seekers told CNN that they were “under the siege” by the Venezuelan security forces, which created a checkpoint outside the embassy to control who enters and leaves the building but did not enter the residence itself.
The bouke’s proposed agreement also includes journalist Roland Carreno, lawyer and activist Rosio San Miguel and nearly 50 detained citizens from other countries, including the United States.
In this photo of the distribution received on March 16 by the presidential service of the presidency of El Salvador, Salvadorant police escort the Venezuela, recently deported by the US government in prison at the Tecoluk Terrorism Center, El Salvador. – the presidential service/distribution of El Salvador to Salvador
The bouquet’s proposal comes against the background of increased control regarding Salvadoran’s desire to accept hundreds of migrants, which the Trump administration is members of the gang or violent criminals.
One of the most popular leaders in the region, the bouquet has called the “most native dictator in the world” and the “Philosophical King” while stopping some civil freedoms to go after the country’s gangs.
This has earned him the fury of international human rights organizations, who claim that large -scale abuses in his repression against crime. But he also gained him popularity within El Salvador; The 43 -year -old bouquet won a re -election last year from landslide.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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