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El Salvador's President Proposes Prisoner Exchange With Venezuela

Nayib Bukele (L) is a key player in Donald Trump's deportations policy (Credit: AFP)

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered Venezuela Sunday a trade of 252 Venezuelans deported to his country by the United States for an equal number of political prisoners held by President Nicolas Maduro's regime.

"I want to propose to you a humanitarian agreement calling for the repatriation of 100 percent of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and handing over of an identical number from among the thousands of political prisoners that you hold," Bukele wrote on X.

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