El Salvador President Nayib Bukele mocked the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, who, through Attorney General Tarek William Saab, announced on Monday (21) that he will investigate the saved agent for accusations of torture against Venezuelan prisoners, exchanged last week by Americans arrested in Venezuela.
“Maduro’s regime was pleased with the exchange agreement; so he accepted it,” wrote Bukele on X.
“Now they are shouting and outraged, not because they disagree with the agreement, but because they have just realized that they had no hostages from the most powerful country in the world,” said El Salvador’s president.
Last week, the government of US President Donald Trump and the Maduro regime reached an agreement to exchange US citizens in the South American country for the return to the Caribbean nation of 252 Venezuelans sent by the US to an El Salvador prison on the grounds that they are members of the Aragua Tren gang.
The Trump administration had agreed to pay $ 6 million to house them at the Cecot Terrorist Confinement Center Megaprinity. By the agreement announced on Friday (18), Venezuela agreed to free ten Americans in exchange for the dictatorship of Caracas.
In a post at X, Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the deal also included the release of Venezuelan political prisoners.
On Monday, Saab announced an investigation against Bukele, the Minister of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador, Héctor Gustavo Villatoro, and the deputy minister and director of criminal centers, Osiris Luna Meza, on accusations of torture and cruel treatment against the Venezuelans who were released.
