Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States, who he described as being “kidnapped,” after his Salvadoran counterpart earlier proposed a prisoner swap.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has criticized his Venezuelan counterpart’s rejection of a swap that would see Venezuelan deportees from the United States detained in El Salvador exchanged for what

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed a deal on Sunday to send 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States and imprisoned in his country back to Venezuela in exchange for the release of detainees in the South American nation,