Ten Americans are en route to the U.S. after a prisoner swap involving the U.S., El Salvador and Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday.
“Thanks to @POTUS’s leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom,” Rubio wrote on X.
The Americans were freed from Venezuela in exchange for El Salvador returning 252 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, senior administration officials said.
A former Navy SEAL, Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, is among the Americans released, three sources told CBS News. Castaneda was detained in Venezuela last year while on personal travel.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wrote on X that his country “handed over all the Venezuelan nationals detained in our country, accused of being part of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua,” in exchange for “a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners … as well as all the American citizens it was holding as hostages.”
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