The Salvadoran leader, who was hosted at the White House last week, said that "all the Venezuelans we have in custody were detained as part of an operation against gangs like Tren de Aragua in the United States.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed a swap in which more than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported there from the US would be traded for the same number of political prisoners held by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro an exchange of 252 recently deported Venezuelans held in the Central American country for the same number of political prisoners held by Caracas’ socialist regime.