Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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Latin Times on MSNGroup Of Americans Returned From Venezuela In Prisoner Exchange Includes Perpetrator Of a Triple MurderAmong the 10 Americans taken to the U.S. as part of an exchange for Venezuelan nationals held in El Salvador there is a perpetrator of a triple murder
But one of those men is an American-Venezuelan dual citizen who was convicted of murdering three people in Spain in 2016, according to Venezuelan court records and statements from officials in Madrid.
Blanco and Joen Suárez, two of the 252 Venezuelans detained in El Salvador, used music to denounce the deportation process from the US.
We are glad 10 Americans and U.S. permanent residents held captive in Venezuela have been freed. It’s a welcome outcome after months of negotiations between the Trump administration and Nicolás Maduro’s regime. For the families of these unjustly imprisoned people, it is the end of a nightmare.
A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”
Some ex-CECOT detainees from Venezuela could return to US, official says The Trump administration says it will facilitate the return of former detainees of an El Salvador prison to the U.S. from Venezuela, if required by a court.
El Salvador's government will send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in exchange for Americans held in Venezuela, two U.S. government officials told Reuters on Friday. One of the officials said El Salvador would send 238 Venezuelans held in its maximum security CECOT prison to Caracas and that the Venezuelan government would release five U.