In order to accomplish this, President Trump relied on El Salvador's hip young president, Nayib Bukele, to house the prisoners in the country's immense Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Bukele, now serving his second term as president,

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, recently offered to free Venezuelans deported by President Donald Trump in exchange for "political prisoners."

The Salvadoran leader, who was hosted at the White House last week, said that "all the Venezuelans we have in custody were detained as part of an operation against gangs like Tren de Aragua in the United States.