Venezuela, El Salvador
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Three Venezuelan men told NBC News they experienced physical and psychological torture, including one man’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted, after the Trump administration sent them to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and other outlets have compiled information on the men deported to CECOT. On March 15, the Trump administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans being held in Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X.
After 125 days in silence, detained inside an El Salvador concrete fortress built to disappear people, Andry Hernández Romero is finally home in Venezuela, alleging he was tortured, sexually abused, and denied food while detained under a Trump administration deportation order that erased him from society.
The Trump admin has argued that the men are now outside U.S. legal jurisdiction and no longer protected by constitutional rights.
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A judge is asking the DOJ why diplomatic discussions are required to bring back a Venezuelan man whose removal to an El Salvador prison violated a court settlement.
Soccer coach Jerce Reyes Barrios, who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison based, he says, largely on his soccer tattoo, tells ABC News he's grateful to be free.
For the families of those detained, it’s an incredible relief. Gloria Browning Vaamondes-Barrios last spoke to her husband Miguel on March 14. The next day, the Trump administration loaded him onto a flight in South Texas which took off for El Salvador even as a judge prepared to hold a hearing over whether the operation was legal.