Venezuela issued 10 Americans imprisoned on Friday for obtaining degrees of immigrants who were released by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration immigration campaign.
The decision represents a diplomatic achievement for Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, and helps President Donald Trump in his goal of imprisoning Americans abroad and Al Salvador lands with a exchange that she proposed months ago.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Trump and President of Salvadori Nayeb Bukley thanked the agreement.
“Ten Americans were detained in Venezuela on their way to freedom,” Tweet Rubio.
Al Salvador will send about 300 Venezuelan immigrants after the Trump administration agreed to pay $ 6 million to house them in the notorious Salvadori prison. The arrangement drew an immediate reaction when Trump protested the war law in the eighteenth century to quickly remove men, whose administration was accused of belonging to the violent Trine de Aragoa Street gang.
The Venezuelans were held in a huge prison known as the Terrorism Center, or CECOT, which was built to hold the alleged gangs members in the war of Al -Salvadori Naib Bokil on the country’s gangs. Human rights groups have documented hundreds of deaths and torture in their walls.
The issuance of the Venezuelan is an invaluable victory for Maduro as he presses his efforts to confirm himself as a president despite reliable evidence that he lost his re -election last year. A long time ago, the recipient on accusations of human rights violations, Maduro used for several months the men in El Salvador to turn the scenario over the US government, forced even some of his strongest political opponents to agree to his condemnation to treat migrants.
The return of migrants to Maduro will allow the reaffirmation of the support inside his shrinking base, while he shows that even if the Trump administration and other countries see that he is an illegitimate president, he is still in power.
The Venezuelan authorities detained nearly ten American citizens in the second half of 2024 and linked them to the alleged plots to destabilize the country. They were among the dozens of people, including activists, opposition members and union leaders, who were detained by the Venezuela government in its brutal campaign to give up the opposition in the 11 months since Maduro claimed his victory.
The US government, along with many other Western countries, does not recognize Maduro’s demand for victory, and instead indicates the number papers collected by the opposition coalition, which turned out to be its candidate, Edmondo Gonzalez, won the July 2024 elections by more than one margin to one.
The conflict on the results prompted immediate protests, and the government responded to the detention of more than 2000 people, most of them poor youth. Gonzalez fled in exile in Spain to avoid detention.
Although the United States is not recognized by Maduro, the two governments have made other modern exchanges.
In May, Venezuela was freed from the veterans of the US Air Force about six months after the detention. The Scott Saint Claire family said that the language specialist, who served four rounds in Afghanistan, traveled to South America to seek treatment for disturbance after shock.
St. Claire was handed over to Richard Greenil, Trump’s special missile, during a meeting on the Caribbean island.
Three months ago, six other Americans were released by the US government that was incorrectly detained in Venezuela after Greenil met with Maduro in the presidential palace.
Greenil urged, during the meeting in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas, Maduro, to restore the migrants who have been deported who committed crimes in the United States, and hundreds of Venezuelan have been deported to their mother country, but more than 200 have been deported from the United States since the middle of it in prison in prison.
Lawyers do not have access to those in prison, which is very guarded, and the information has been tightly closed, unlike videos of the highly productive state that shows the men of two temples behind bars.
As a result, prominent human rights groups and lawyers who worked with Venezuelans in legal cases did not have little information about their movement until they boarded the plane.
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