Venezuela Accuses El Salvador of Human Rights Violations, Demands Release of 252 Detained Migrants   - teleSUR English

Venezuela Accuses Bukele of ‘Forced Disappearances,’ Demands Migrants’ Release - Venezuelanalysis

Caracas, April 23, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government rebuked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s “cynical” proposal to exchange detained Venezuelan migrants for alleged political prisoners held in the Caribbean country. On Sunday, Bukele sent Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a so-called “humanitarian proposal” to swap 252 Venezuelans held in El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT prison for the same number of “political …

Maduro Demands Unconditional Release of 252 Venezuelans Held in Salvadoran Prisons

President Nicolás Maduro responded with indignation to the proposal made on Sunday by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele regarding a prisoner exchange that would include 252 migrants detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in exchange for alleged political prisoners in Venezuela, describing the Central American leader as acting under “Nazi schemes.” Maduro demanded that the Bukele government “give proof of life of all the kidnapped y…

Venezuela Accuses El Salvador of Human Rights Violations, Demands Release of 252 Detained Migrants   - teleSUR English

Venezuela condemns El Salvador for “grave crimes against migrants,” citing human trafficking, xenophobia, and illegal deportations. Demands immediate release of 252 Venezuelans.   Related: HRW Reports Forced Disappearance of 238 Venezuelan Migrants: U.S. and El Salvador Under Scrutiny Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry issued a forceful response to a diplomatic note from El Salvador, accusing the government of Nayib Bukele of committing “grave violati…

The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, accused the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, of involvement in a human trafficking scheme by charging money to send Venezuelan immigrants deported by the United States to prison in his country. Read more (04/25/2025)

Salvadoran deputy Claudia Ortiz, of the opposition minority party VAMOS, said on Thursday that "the state cannot have double standards," in reference to the offer of the president, Nayib Bukele, to Nicolás Maduro, to hand over 252 Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador in exchange for "political prisoners." "The state cannot have double standards, it cannot have double standards, on the one hand trying to ensure the rights of other people, but it…