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Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador’s ‘hell’ prison where US sent them
Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown described “hell” because of the severe abuses they allege happened there.
The Venezuelans, labeled terrorists and violent criminals by Trump, had been deported to the notorious CECOT prison, setting off a legal battle over executive power.
U.S. special envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “a good friend” after he helped secure the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelans that the U.
Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.
Andry Hernández-Romero, a gay makeup artist who sought asylum in the U.S. due to persecution in Venezuela but was deported to a prison in El Salvador, has been released as part of a prisoner swap — but he's being sent back to Venezuela instead of the U.S.