Venezuela receives & frees migrants US had sent to El Salvadorian CECOT. In return, Venezuala released 10 jailed Americans

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Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US

Modified headline to try to make it more understandable, but may have failed at that

Original headline was

Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US

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In court pleadings, the US government bizarrely claimed that (1) this was entirely the doing of El Salvador; US had nothing to do with it, and (2), despite (1), the US still has the ability to return these men to the US if a court so orders.
- Tried updating it again to improve it. Any better with the edit to the edit? (May take a bit to federate)
- Maybe I’m just stupid but none of this article made sense. What did Venezuela and Al Salvador get out of this deal?
  
  The immigrants sent to CECOT were from Venezuela originally, that's why they cared about this. From the article about the motivations about that specifically
  The release of the Venezuelans, meanwhile, is an invaluable win for Maduro as he presses his efforts to assert himself as president despite credible evidence that he lost reelection last year.
  Long accused of human rights abuses, Maduro for months has used the migrants’ detention in El Salvador to flip the script on the U.S. government, forcing even some of his strongest political opponents to agree with his condemnation of the migrants’ treatment.
  Their return will allow Maduro to reaffirm support within his shrinking base, while demonstrating that even if the Trump administration and other nations see him as an illegitimate president, he is still firmly in power.
  In other reporting, El Salvador has basically just says that the whole deal was between the US and Venezuela directly and they didn't have involvement besides just moving them out. They were being paid by the US to hold them there in the first place, so now they are presumably just not being paid for it