Venezuela’s leader has described the deportation of more than 200 migrants sent by the United States to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador as a “kidnapping,” and denied they are criminals while backing calls for their return.

Invoking a 1798 law, the US president has sent hundreds of alleged gang members to the high-security prison described as a 'black hole of human rights'

Venezuela's government has condemned the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the United States to an El Salvador mega-prison, comparing it to Nazi concentration camps.