Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a former U.S. Marine convicted of a triple homicide in Spain, was among 10 Americans repatriated in exchange for 250 Venezuelans held in El Salvador.

The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents.

Venezuela has freed 10 Americans as part of a larger prisoner exchange for Venezuelan detainees released from El Salvador, the U.S. and Salvadoran governments said Friday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Venezuela Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday that his office will investigate El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, as well as the country's justice minister and head of prisons, for the alleged abuse of more than 200 Venezuelans recently held in the Central American country.

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who entered the U.S. as a child has been sent back to his home country after being deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison earlier this year