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El Salvador offers to swap US deportees with Venezuela

Protestors hold signs as they march towards the White House during a Free Kilmar Abrego and an Anti-Trump protest, in Washington, DC, April 19, 2025. [AFP]

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered Venezuela Sunday, a trade of 252 Venezuelans deported to his country by the United States for an equal number of political prisoners held by President Nicolas Maduro's regime.

The offer followed a broadside from President Donald Trump against US Supreme Court judges who on Saturday ordered a halt to removals like that of the Venezuelans, which the administration has carried out under an obscure wartime law.

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