10 Americans released by Venezuela in the exchange of prisoners for the phases: NPR

Venezuelan immigrant was imprisoned in El Salvador’s gestures, and he was starting from a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Monicitia, Venezuela on Friday. El Salvador launched dozens of Venezuelan who were deported from the United States to a reputable bad prison, and as a result of the very coordinated prisoner’s exchange between Caracas and Washington.

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Bogota, Colombia – Venezuela 10 Americans said opposite the Venezuelan of the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

Venezuela also issued an unlimited number of Venezuelan political prisoners as part of the deal.

The President of El Salvadori Naeb, the exchange agent, confirmed in a message On xHe said that his government handed over the Venezuelan accused of being part of a gang against “a large number of Venezuelan political prisoners” as well as the Americans.

The social media account belongs to the Office of hostage Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Publish a photo Among the men who said they were released from the detention of Venezuela on a plane.

in statementForeign Minister Marco Rubio said that the United States welcomed the release of 10 Americans and Venezuelan political prisoners.

Governments did not call the people who issued.

A Foreign Ministry official told NPR that the people who were released from Venezuela included US citizens and permanent residents who were appointed as “incorrectly detained” less than a year ago. The official, who spoke, said that he was not disclosed by his identity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, and the list includes Wilbert Joseph Castaneda and Lucas Hunter.

In March, the Trump administration sent about 250 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, which prompted their government to house them in a maximum security prison, known as CECOT.

The United States has accused many men of being members of the gangs and deported them under the law of foreign enemies, which has not been protected since the Second World War.

Venezuelan departed lawyers argue that their transfer to El Salvador was illegal. Dozens of them were in the middle of asylum cases, and they were held in American detention centers for several months.

On Friday, a videotopype of men was published on the handcuffs, which he said was delivered to Venezuela, where they boarded a plane that transported them to the country of South America.

Later, the Venezuelan news port Telesur broadcast What he said is the arrival of a plane carrying a group of Venezuelan immigrants.

The agent said that the prisoner’s exchange was the result of “months of negotiations.” It has been secret until Friday – and some of the relatives of Venezuelan immigrants say they discovered this on social media.

Gabriella Mora, whose husband Carlos Ozkatiki was one of the men sent from the United States to El Salvador, tells NPR that she was at an event at her daughter’s school in Venezuela when she learned of the news.

“This makes us very happy,” she told NPR by phone from Lobatera, a city in Tachira in Venezuela. “We have been waiting for this day for a long time.”

Uzcategui, the coal mine worker from Tachira, entered the United States in December after receiving an appointment, through the US government’s CBP One application, to cross the borders and make his issue to resort to the country.

Then he was held in a detention center in Texas. American immigration officials claimed that tattoos from crowns and stars on his chest were linked to the Trin de Aragoa gang. The Uzcategui family says he got a tattoo 15 years ago, even before the gang was created.

“He is not a member of the gang,” Mora said in an interview in May. “Just a man who works hard he wants to provide his family.”

Michelle Kieelman from NPR contributed to the reports from Washington, DC