Madrid, Spain.- The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, He proposed this Sunday A humanitarian agreement to the Government of Nicolás Maduro to repatriate 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States and currently held in the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT). In return, the Salvadoran president requests the release of an equivalent number of political prisoners in Venezuela.
Among the figures included in Bukele’s proposal are Rafael Tudares, son -in -law of the elected president Edmundo González Urrutia; the journalist Roland Carreño; the lawyer and activist Rocío San Miguel; and Corina Parisca de Machado, mother of the opponent María Corina Machado. The Plan also includes almost 50 citizens of other nationalities, including Americans, Germans and French.
The response of the Venezuelan regime soon arrived. Through Attorney General Tarek William Saab, Caracas flatly rejected the initiative and described it as an act of “cynicism.” Saab accused Bukele of keeping migrants under inhuman conditions and seriously violating international law. In addition, he requested a “faith of life” of the detainees and a detailed report on their judicial situation, access to legal defense and medical conditions.
The Chavista prosecutor also said that the CECOT has become “a place of forced disappearance of innocent Venezuelan nationality” and pointed out that the Salvadoran government could be using migrants to obtain economic benefits.
Bukele’s proposal occurs in a context of high international pressure towards the Maduro government, accused of organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to keep more than 800 political prisoners. Despite the complaints, Caracas continues to deny the existence of arrests for political reasons, ensuring that these are cases related to common crimes or conspiracy.
In parallel, the immigration agreement between the United States and El Salvador has allowed the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans since 2023, some linked by US authorities to Aragua train.
In the midst of this controversy, a federal judge in the United States He began on Wednesday to a process to declare Donald Trump in contemptconsidering that a court order deliberately disobeyed that prohibited the expulsion of more than 200 migrants. The majority of those affected are Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador and held in the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a megacárcel built by the Nayib Bukele government to house gang members and other accused of serious crimes.
