Men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador mega-prison freed in prisoner swap [View all]

Source: NBC News

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More than 200 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration had sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador have been flown to Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said in a post on X.

The move was part of a prisoner swap in which the Venezuelan government released "a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners ... as well as all the American citizens it was holding as hostages," Bukele said, in exchange for the Venezuelan nationals who had been imprisoned in El Salvador.

In a post of his own, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, "Thanks to @POTUS’s leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom."

Rubio also praised Bukele for "helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees, plus the release of Venezuelan political prisoners."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/men-trump-administration-sent-el-salvadors-cecot-prison-exchanged-pris-rcna219643