10 Americans released them in the prisoner’s swap between us, El Salvador and Venezuela star-news.press/wp

Washington Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Friday that ten Americans are on their way to the United States after swaping of a prisoner that included the United States, El Salvador and Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday.

The two senior administration officials said that the Venezuelan were members of the gang Treen de Aragoa, that the Americans released them from Venezuela in exchange for the return of El Salvador to 252 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States to the notorious Salvadori prison earlier this year, the two people who were released from the members of the Trin de Aragoa gang.

Previous naval seal, Wilbert Joseph CastanedaThree sources told CBS News from among the Americans who were released. Kastaneda was detained in Venezuela last year during personal travel.

“We prayed for this day for about a year. My brother is an innocent man used by the Maduro regime,” the Castaida family said in a statement. The family said that he suffered from many painful brain injuries during the 18 years of the navy to “weaken his rule and reduce risks” and “led him to make a bad decision to travel to Venezuela.”

The United States has warned the Americans against traveling to Venezuela or near its borders, noting the risks of illegal detention.

“Until today, more Americans have been seized in Venezuela more than any other country in the world,” Rubio said in a statement.

“Every American is incorrectly detained in Venezuela is now free and return in our homeland,” Rubio added.

The American embassy was published in Venezuela image Of the Americans liberated with diplomats John McKinamara.

As part of the deal, the Venezuelan government also launched dozens of people who were described as political and detained prisoners, a senior administration official said.

President El Salvadori Naeb P.O. Books on x His country “handed over all the Venezuelan citizens detained in our country, and they were accused of being part of the criminal organization Treen de Aragoa”, in exchange for “a large number of Venezuelan political prisoners … as well as all American citizens who were keeping it as hostages.”

The Trump administration has been deported more than 200 Venezuelan citizens male To El Salvador in March, accusing them of being part of the crossing gang, Terin de Aragoa. Mr. Trump summoned a law in wartime in the eighteenth century, the law of foreign enemies, to ask officials to quickly deport many Venezuelan immigrants, and considered them a threat to the United States, and the Salvadian government has retained many detainees in Supermax Prison called the Tent Tent, or CECOT.

In May, Supreme Court Stand On the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants detained in northern Texas, while they are united by removals under the law of war.

Some Venezuelan families denied that they had a gang and “60 minutes” April investigation I found that most of the detainees did not have criminal convictions.

The Venezuelan government confirmed on Friday, saying in a statement that it “achieved the release of the citizens of 252 Venezuelan who have been kidnapped and subject to enforced disappearance in the detention camp, known as Cecot, in the Republic of El Salvador.”

Officials describe the “Corner” deal

A senior administration official said the deal with El Salvador and Venezuela was “basically to the wire.” She left the journey carrying detainees from Venezuela at around 3:40 pm East time and left the Venezuelan airspace at about 3:55 pm, and the official claimed that the artistic government took a “last position” by delaying Mubadala on Friday for a short period as a “Flex power”.

The prisoner’s swap is arranged as Venezuela’s faces Intensive US sanctions That borders the country Oil manufacturing onceAnd it came one day after the Trump administration Imposition On six leaders and subsidiaries, the Litrin de Aragoa. A senior administration official said that the Friday deal was “human by its nature” and there was no “discussion of the sanctions at all.”

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Olivia Victoria Gaza Camello Monteoyo Galvose contributed to this report.