“Bienvenidos al infierno del Cecot”: el maquillador venezolano Andry Hernández relata el día a día preso en El Salvador

Por Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español El migrante venezolano Andry Hernández Romero recuerda la noche agridulce antes de ser enviado en un vuelo desde Estados Unidos al Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) de El Salvador, un lugar en el que cuenta que …

El Salvador migrants arrested in sting: Police posed as teen girls online; flagged for deportation

In Houston, three undocumented men from El Salvador, Abner Ruiz, Erick Menjivar, and Carlos Gomez, were arrested in a police sting targeting online predators on the Jaumo dating app. They are charged with online solicitation of a minor. Gomez, who had been …

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse

Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It was March of this year. Terán had just been …

Venezuelan migrants reveal shocking abuse in El Salvador jail under Trump crackdown — ‘abuse, violence, spoiled food’

Venezuelans, who were detained in US President Donald Trump's March immigration crackdown, talked about the "horror" they endured during their time in the Salvadoran jail. They alleged witnessing abuse, beatings, violence, spoiled food and …

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele (L) built the maximum security prison known as CECOT to house the country's most ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele (L) built the maximum security prison known as CECOT to house the country's most dangerous gang members in deliberately brutal conditions, drawing criticism from rights groups

Edwuar Hernandez (R), a Venezuelan migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, is welcomed by his family upon ...

Mervin Yamarte (C), a Venezuelan migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, is welcomed by his family upon ...

Mercedes Yamarte (C), mother of Mervin Yamarte, a Venezuelan migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, reacts ...

Mervin Yamarte (R), a Venezuelan migrant repatriated from a prison in El Salvador, is welcomed by his mother, Mercedes ...

Venezuelan men expelled to El Salvador megaprison faced ‘state-sanctioned torture’, say lawyers

When José Manuel Ramos Bastidas finally reunited with his family in El Tocuyo, Venezuela, it marked the end of an ordeal that began with his deportation by the Trump administration and ended in what his lawyers describe as “state-sanctioned torture” inside …