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El Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposes swap with Venezuela for deportees held in El Salvador .

He says he wants to repatriate 100 percent of deported Venezuelans from the U.S. in exchange for the release and surrender of an identical number of political prisoners.

Venezuela 's prosecutor’s office calls the proposal “cynical” and refers to the Salvadoran leader as a “neofascist”.