President Nayib Bukele said he would free the Venezuelans that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador if Venezuela released the same number of prisoners, including members of the opposition.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday offered Venezuela a prisoner exchange, proposing to trade detained Venezuelan deportees from the US for what he called Venezuela’s "political prisoners". In a post on social media,

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States, who he described as being “kidnapped,” after his Salvadoran counterpart earlier proposed a prisoner swap.