El Salvador’s president slams Venezuela’s Maduro for rejecting his prisoner swap proposal

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US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are reigniting tensions between El Salvador and Venezuela. On Monday, El Salvador’s president proposed repatriating 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States to his country in exchange for an equal number of Salvadorans imprisoned in Venezuela—whom El Salvador regards as political prisoners. Romain Michelot and Florent Marchais report.