"The government of the United States, together with the government of El Salvador, is holding hostage several Venezuelans in El Salvador," says Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello from the tarmac, shortly after a flight with migrants deported from the United States lands at the Maiquetia airport, near the capital Caracas. President Donald Trump sent two planeloads of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to a prison in El Salvador on March 15 after invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA), which has only been used previously during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. SOUNDBITE