After the president of El Salvador, Nayib BukeleI proposed to Nicolás Maduro The exchange of more than 250 Venezuelan citizens deported by the United States who remain in Salvadoran prisons in exchange for their colleague to return to the same amount of political prisoners, the response of the Venezuelan president arrived, who rejected the offer, said that the Salvadoran has kidnapped his fellow citizens and demanded his liberation.
Bukele had made his proposal on Sunday, through a post in the social network X. “I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that contemplates the repatriation of 100 % of the 252 Venezuelans who were deportedin exchange for the release and delivery of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners that you maintain, “said the extensive message of the Salvadoran President, in which he also assured that the formal proposal would be sent by the Foreign Ministry of your country.
Maduro’s response came Monday through the television program “With Maduro +”, which he drives. “Bukele is a serial rapist of the right to freedom, the fair treatment and the dignity of the human being”said the Venezuelan during his most recent broadcast, and later said that “Bukele has acted under the patterns and canons of the serial violation of human rights and has acted in the Nazis schemes.”
In his response, Maduro said that Bukele’s offer is “Completely illegitimate, illegal, abusive” And that he showed that the Central American country “He has kidnapped” to Venezuelans deported by the United States. The Venezuelan also said that those arrested in El Salvador did not commit any crime in that country.
“I tell Mr. Bukele, put on law, say where they are prosecuted, what causes what crime they committed, allow the access of their lawyers and relatives to the visit in the prison where they have them kidnapped, abandon the path of the forced disappearance,” mature urged this Monday, and asked the Salvadoran to sign “a decree giving the unconditional freedom” “Return to Venezuela to all 252 boys”.
Among the political prisoners whose freedom claimed the president of El Salvador are Rafael Tudares, son -in -law of Edmundo González; the journalist Roland Carreño; the lawyer and activist Rocío San Miguel; Mrs. Corina Parisca de Machado, mother of María Corina Machado And the four asylum political leaders at the Argentine Embassy.
In addition, there are campaign staff, activists and journalists, many of them detained after the protests that followed the elections last July, Questioned by lack of transparency.
Señor @Nicolasmaduroyou have said on numerous occasions that you love Venezuelans back and free.
Unlike you, you have political prisoners, we don’t have political prisoners. All Venezuelans we are in custody were arrested in the …
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 20, 2025
Bukele had also included “the almost 50 citizens arrested from other nationalities: American, German, Dominican, argentinaBolivian, Israeli, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Spanish, French, Guyanese, Dutch, Iranian, Italian, Lebanese, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Ukrainian, Uruguayan, Portuguese and Czech ”.
“The only reason you are imprisoned is for having already opposed your electoral fraud”El Salvadoran expressed on Sunday.
For its part, El Salvador keeps a group of Venezuelan citizens in a maximum security prison. Among them, there are alleged criminals of the gang Aragua train and irregular migrants that were deported by the United States.
The proposal occurred at times that the Central American country is under intense international scrutiny for receiving Venezuelans deported by Donald Trump’s government, who accused them of being alleged gang members with few evidence.
Human Rights Watch recently accused the United States and the Savior of the disappearance and arbitrary detention of Venezuelans and denounced that Salvadoran and American authorities have not given information to the relatives of the whereabouts of the deported
For their part, the 2024 elections in Venezuela were tildos de fraudulentas, After Maduro proclaimed himself winner without showing the minutes that validate that result. For its part, the opposition presented evidence, endorsed by international observers, of a vote that gave the advantage by 2 to 1 to the opposition candidate Edmundo González.
However, Maduro was declared winner of the elections by the electoral authorities without having published the voting records.