$SUI The news may have surprised someone caught off guard: The United States and Venezuela, two governments facing each other rhetorically and ideologically, exchanged prisoners this Friday.

The exchange involves the release of 10 Americans detained in Venezuela and the repatriation of 252 Venezuelan migrants that the U.S. deported to El Salvador this year, authorities from the latter two countries reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the agreement also involves "the release of Venezuelan political prisoners," without specifying how many.