{"id":39073,"date":"2025-07-18T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/10-americans-freed-in-prisoner-swap-between-u-s-el-salvador-and-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:32:20","slug":"10-americans-freed-in-prisoner-swap-between-u-s-el-salvador-and-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/10-americans-freed-in-prisoner-swap-between-u-s-el-salvador-and-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Americans freed in prisoner swap between U.S., El Salvador and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington<\/em> \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to @POTUS&#8217;s leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom,&#8221; Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/secrubio\/status\/1946297566045278405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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, claiming the released Venezuelans were members of the gang Tren de Aragua.<\/p>\n<p>A former Navy SEAL, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuela-detention-sailor-american\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Wilbert Joseph Castaneda<\/a><\/span>, is among the Americans released, three sources told CBS News. Castaneda was detained in Venezuela last year while on personal travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Venezuela posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usembassyve\/status\/1946299817199653366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">photo<\/a> of the freed Americans:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/18\/cae2820e-ab6d-46ab-8926-d0b7c8ebf96a\/thumbnail\/620x465\/1a45c4f0d381b3912d832fafea4e5028\/gwklxbxwiaa4nws.jpg#\" alt=\"Ten Americans who were freed from Venezuela in a prisoner swap on Friday, July 18, 2025. \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/18\/cae2820e-ab6d-46ab-8926-d0b7c8ebf96a\/thumbnail\/620x465\/1a45c4f0d381b3912d832fafea4e5028\/gwklxbxwiaa4nws.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/18\/cae2820e-ab6d-46ab-8926-d0b7c8ebf96a\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/304f7e0031db6ff8ce9f713e1dc209c2\/gwklxbxwiaa4nws.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Ten Americans who were freed from Venezuela in a prisoner swap on Friday, July 18, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                U.S. Embassy in Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;As of right now, there are no more Americans who remain wrongfully detained in Venezuela,&#8221; a senior administration official told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, the Venezuelan government also released dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners and detainees, a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n<p>Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1946296384035918284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote on X<\/a> that his country &#8220;handed over all the Venezuelan nationals detained in our country, accused of being part of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua,&#8221; in exchange for &#8220;a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners \u2026 as well as all the American citizens it was holding as hostages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration deported more than <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-names\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">200 male Venezuelan citizens<\/a><\/span> to El Salvador in March, accusing them of being part of the transnational gang Tren De Aragua. President Trump invoked an 18th-century wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to order officials to quickly deport many of the Venezuelan migrants, deeming them a threat to the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Supreme Court <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-supreme-court-alien-enemies-act\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">extended a pause<\/a><\/span> on deportations of Venezuelan migrants detained in northern Texas while they challenge their removals under the wartime law.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the families of the Venezuelan deportees have denied that they have gang connections, and a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-records-show-about-migrants-sent-to-salvadoran-prison-60-minutes-transcript\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">investigation in April<\/a><\/span> found that most of the detainees did not have criminal convictions.<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official said the deal with El Salvador and Venezuela was &#8220;essentially down to the wire.&#8221; The flight carrying the detainees took off from Venezuela at around 3:40 p.m. ET and left Venezuelan airspace at around 3:55 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoner swap was arranged as Venezuela faces <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-united-states-sanctions-maduro-fair-elections-17589aed0dcab89ac1075dd041f8198d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">intense U.S. sanctions<\/a> that limit the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-maduro-trump-oil-license-chevron-election-4c0357961d7978e6fbac16127b0a759e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">once-lucrative oil industry<\/a>, and came one day after the Trump administration <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/venezuelan-gang-tren-de-aragua-us-sanctions-leaders-affiliates\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">imposed sanctions<\/a><\/span> on six leaders and affiliates of Tren de Aragua. A senior administration official said Friday&#8217;s deal was &#8220;humanitarian in nature&#8221; and there was &#8220;not a discussion of sanctions whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Olivia Victoria Gazis<\/span> and <\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/camilo-montoya-galvez\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Camilo  Montoya-Galvez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/caitlin-yilek\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Caitlin  Yilek<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. 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