Men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador megaprison freed in prisoner swap

More than 200 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration had sent to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador have been flown to Venezuela, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said in a post on X.The move was part of a prisoner swap in which the Venezuelan government released "a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners ... as well as all the American citizens it was holding as hostages," Bukele said, in exchange for the Venezuelan nationals who had been imprisoned in El Salvador

More than 200 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration had sent to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador have been flown to Venezuela, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said in a post on X.

The move was part of a prisoner swap in which the Venezuelan government released "a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners ... as well as all the American citizens it was holding as hostages," Bukele said, in exchange for the Venezuelan nationals who had been imprisoned in El Salvador.

In a post of his own, U.S. 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."

The U.S. nationals were back in the U.S. as of Saturday night, according to a U.S. official.

They are Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, Jorge Marcelo Vargas, Lucas Hunter, Jonathan Pagan Gonzalez, Ronald Oribio Quintana, Erick Oribio Quintana, Fabian Buglione Reyes, Renzo Humanchumo Castillo, Juan Jose Faria Bricen and Danud Hanid Ortiz, according to another U.S. official.