Due to conflicting efforts by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Richard Grenell, the Trump administration bungled a deal that would have freed 11 U.S. citizens and green card holders detained in Venezuela, along with a number of Venezuelan political prisoners, according to a new report from The New York Times.

A high-stakes effort to free a group of detained Americans and dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners collapsed earlier this year due to internal conflict within the Trump administration, as two top officials pursued conflicting negotiations with Caracas,

Negotiations for a prisoner swap between the United States and Venezuela broke down as two top US officials held talks with Venezuelans separately without any coordination, according to a report.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. envoy to Venezuela were both working on different deals and ended up at cross purposes.

According to a report in The New York Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio worked hard to negotiate a deal with the government of Nicolás Maduro to exchange the detained U.S. citizens for roughly 250 Venezuelans who’d been sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s nationwide deportation drive.

What was meant to be a strategic deal to bring Americans home from Venezuelan prisons was derailed by competing diplomatic efforts within the Trump administration, according to The New York Times. The two separate sets of negotiations with Venezuela reportedly led to confusion and no deal being made,

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The NYT report comes on the heels of court filings in which Salvadoran officials confirmed that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants detained in the country's CECOT maximum security prison are in control of the U.

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