Al Salvador and US interacted with prisoner Swap with Venezuela

Al Salvador is withdrawing about 250 detained Venezuela in exchange for American citizens held in Venezuela, the US and Al Salvador governments have announced.

The Central American country exchanged prisoners – migrants deported from the US and disorganized the CECOT jail at the CECOT jail at the notorious center for the release of 10 American citizens from Venezuela.

The planlide of migrants leaving Al Salvador has been prescribed to visit Venezuela, Venezuela on Friday.

A senior US administration official told reporters that with the release, there are no American citizens being organized by the government of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela.

In a post on X on Friday, Salvadorian leader Naib Bukele said: “Today, we have handed over all the Venezuela citizens detained in our country, who are accused of being part of the criminal organization Train D Argu (TDA).”

He said the exchange was “for a large number of venezuela political prisoners” as well as in exchange for American citizens.

In a separate post, US State Secretary Mark Rubio confirmed the exchange and thanked and thanked US officials.

Citing the concerns of privacy, US authorities have so far refused to publicly identify any of the American citizens issued as part of the deal.

The BBC American partner CBS has reported that one of them is the former Navy Seal Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, who was detained in Venezuela last year, while on a personal visit.

At the beginning of this year under the 1798 Alien Enemy Act, Venezuela was withdrawn under the Trump Administration, which was deported by the US under Trump Administration under Trump Administration, which gives an American President an US President strength to custody and deport the original inhabitants or citizens of nations without “enemy” nations without general procedures.

The people of Venezuela released are Oscar Gonzalez Pineeda, who lives in Maa Gartrudis Western Venezuela.

He told the BBC in a voice message that he was “so happy that my heart is flowing”, saying: “I am very grateful to God, (Venezuela) President Nicolas Maduro to fight them to fight them, to fight the lawyers there in Al Salvador.”

The Oscar was acting as a tile and carpet fitter when he was detained by immigration officials in Dallas. He initially understood that he was going into a detention facility in Texas, but was one of the 252 exemplified for Cecot.

Gurtrudis has always insisted that the Oscar train had no link to the D Argua gang.

A senior official of the Trump administration told reporters on Friday that Al Salvador made a “independent decision” to release Venezuela prisoners – which he considers a member of the gang – for human reasons.

Some of Venezuela families have denied that they have gang connections.

The official said the complex deal was “down to the wire”, and only once reporters were confirmed that once American citizens were carried out the aircraft of Venezuela on Friday afternoon.

“We are working with a regime that always has a degree of uncertainty on his behalf, and a degree of uncertainty from our side,” the official said. “At the end of the day, everything worked, everything is fine and everyone is safely on how to re -connect with their loved ones.”

The relationship between Baukele and US President Donald Trump has warmed quite warmly in recent months, especially when Boukele agreed to existing American migrants.

The strong relationship between Trump and Bukle that highlights the exchange facility by Al Salvador – the self -styling “the world’s best dictator”.

The administration official said, “The deal was not possible without the President’s call.” “We expand our deep, deep gratitude.”

The Salvadoran leader visited Trump at the White House in April, where the pair appeared favorable, as they used to talk to reporters, often laugh and break jokes together.

Bukele has supported the exile of the United States migrants, which is in the maximum security jail of Al Salvador.

Trump said at the time that “are really helping” by making these prevention facilitated, because the Salvadoron President replied that his country “is very keen to help”.

Around the same time, Boukele first swap -exchanged Venezuela for Venezuela, in which the family members, journalists and activists of the opponents of Venezuela were detained in a government election crack in 2024.

“The only reason they are imprisoned, you and your electoral fraud are to oppose,” he wrote to Maduro on X.

“However, I propose a human agreement that includes a repatriation of 100% of 252 Venezuela, which was deported, which were in exchange for the release and surrender of a similar number (252) of thousands of political prisoners organized by you.”

While the Maduro government rejected the deal, the administration official said that he saw the proposal as “important opportunity”, so that American citizens could be potentially rectified.

The senior administration official said that while the deal belongs to American citizens kept only in Venezuela, the Trump administration is still actively working on the release of “dozens of” of political prisoners organized by the Maduro government.

There are currently no official diplomatic relations with Venezuela in the US, on which the US has imposed heavy sanctions.

The administration official said that the restrictions were not part of the “conversation” about the prisoner’s exchange.

Al Salvador was exposed to the case of exile in the case of Kilmar Obrego Garcia, a Maryland, who was accidentally excluded to Al Salvador, where he alleged that he was subjected to “severe beating” and “torture” when he was detained in Sikot.

The Trump administration earlier members of the Citizen – Salvadorian gang, MS -13 of Sri ábrego Garcia – Al Salvador, who strongly refused his lawyers and family.

He was returned to the US in July to face human trafficking charges – requesting not to be guilty