VENEZUELA-EL SALVADOR PRISONER SWAP. The old boxes for us to think in will fall apart when a creative statesman thinks outside them. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele did not back down from charging Venezuela with 2024 election fraud. But he offered to swap 252 Venezuelans that the US deported to El Salvador for 252 political prisoners.
He wants President Nicolas Maduro to release those prisoners who opposed him & the election fraud. Although they’re only 252 political prisoners out of thousands Maduro holds, they’d show a beginning. Specifically, his list of 252 includes the son-in-law of former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. And the mother of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
In return, Venezuela called Bukele & the US’ handling of the 252 Venezuelans a “crime against humanity.” However, those 252 not only entered the US illegally but took part in a terrorist gang. Because the US designated Tren de Aragua as terrorists along with five other criminal drug gangs.
Since Maduro wants them back, he should release prisoners who haven’t committed crimes at all. Meanwhile, he should not object to the US and El Salvador treating them as criminals. How we treat them as criminals in our prisons remains open to debate. But the more we stop such terrorist activity, the better for the US and Latin America.
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Photo: El Salvador Terrorism Confinement Center, La Prensa Gráfica, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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