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 he said were “political prisoners” in Venezuela.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has proposed a prisoner exchange with Venezuela, offering to repatriate hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States in exchange for “political prisoners.

The proposal includes El Salvador handing over 252 Venezuelan migrants deported by Trump for the same number of "political prisoners" held by the Maduro regime.