El Salvador releases hundreds of US deportees from notorious prison in US-Venezuela swap

The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country in exchange for 10 US nationals, officials said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media the Americans, the last known to be detained in Venezuela, were now “on their way to freedom.”

“Until today, more Americans were wrongfully held in Venezuela than any other country in the world,” Rubio said in a statement. “Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland.”