Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is offering Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a unique proposal: a prisoner swap. President Bukele is offering the Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador in exchange for “political prisoners.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador 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.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has proposed a high-stakes prisoner swap with Venezuela, offering to return 252 Venezuelans deported from the United States and detained in El Salvador in exchange for the release of an equal number of political prisoners held by President Nicolás Maduro’s government.