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.

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.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadoran 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.