Is it possible that Trump lied?

OK!

wash his hands fast enough of whatever kind of initial agreement he had with Trump.

I'll bet other countries that are not the home countries of the deportees see what El Salvador just did and will reconsider taking anyone who isn't a citizen of their country.

Venezuela.
Mr.Art of the Deal wasn't able to get Americans back without kidnapping people and sending them to a a Gulag?

Buekle no longer wanted to deal with having the Venezuelan deportees. Buekle/El Salvador looked like the bad guys here.
I recall reading a few weeks ago that El Salvador said the deportees were under American control, not El Salvador's. That was after Trump said there was nothing the US could do to get them released because the deportees were under El Salvador control.

I think he told Trump/Rubio to figure out a way to get them out of El Salvador. I'm sure El Salvador negotiated and facilitated the swap. Like a 3 way deal in baseball, El Salvador traded Venezuela its nationals in exhange for Venezuela trading US nationals back to us.

Initial reporting was very, very confusing. Now reporting seems clear that ALL the migrants kidnapped in the U.S. and sent to El Salvador to be held in torturous conditions in CECOT (estimate of 250 is being reported, precise number not specified) have now been sent to Venezuela in exchange for 10 American "political prisoners" who were being held in VE.

We have NO information about how many of the migrants who have now been sent from El Salvador to Venezuela came to the U.S. to seek asylum because return to Venezuela would be a sentence of death.

Their disposition and probable treatment in Venezuela seems unclear. There are reports that Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello told reporters the men would undergo medical tests and background checks before they can go home.

So are they all going home?

Or will some face the risks of political or gang persecution they came here to escape?

And WTF, don't we have cases in process seeking to get various of the kidnapped back here to be given their due process rights?

Doesn't help anything, but as I read more about this (and hit walls of incredibly limited information) I found myself screaming in my car earlier. And the reporting all seems so damn matter-of-fact about all this. Nothing about the context, pending cases here, guarantees (or lack thereof) of safety or support services from Venezuela, recognition that the horrific actions by the 47 regime that put these men in a concentration camp had absolutely nothing with deporting so-called "criminals"... f-ing nothing.