Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States, who he described as being “kidnapped,” after his Salvadoran counterpart earlier proposed a prisoner swap.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has criticized his Venezuelan counterpart’s rejection of a swap that would see Venezuelan deportees from the United States detained in El Salvador exchanged for what

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, recently offered to free Venezuelans deported by President Donald Trump in exchange for "political prisoners."