Anonymous wrote:U.S. special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “a good friend” after he helped secure the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelans who the U.S. had sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Boehler said the hostage exchange has been “months in the works” and is the result of “a great, unbelievable team, in terms of people on the ground, career people that folks don’t ever hear of” who were “driving this bus really hard back and forth.”
“The reality here is Bukele had — who’s been great — Bukele had a number of people there at CECOT. He made a deal with Venezuela, and then Venezuela released all Americans, and so our portion of that deal was to make sure that all of our boys got home,” Boehler said, referring to the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5410579-special-envoy-calls-bukele-good-friend/