Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
In a post on the social media platform X, directed at President Nicolás Maduro, Bukele listed off a number of family members of high-level opposition figures in Venezuela, journalists and activists detained during the South American government’s electoral crackdown last year.
I’ve long thought that Salvadorean prisoners should be considered POWs rather than criminals. Through that lense, the confinement of anyone with the enemy “uniform” (tattoos in this case) makes perfect sense. And exchange for other prisoners.
Bukele is just too dumb to understand his own actions. Or dislikes the Geneva convention which would apply if he framed it like that.