After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland
- Jhoan Bastidas was deported from the United States after spending 16 days at Guantanamo Bay, where he experienced hunger and was monitored by cameras.
- Approximately 350 Venezuelans, including Bastidas, are trying to rebuild their lives after being deported amid President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
- Bastidas believes his tattoos led U.S. Authorities to wrongfully identify him as affiliated with a gang, and he is relying on faith to move forward.
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After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the U.S. adjusts to his homeland
Jhoan Bastidas was deported from the United States and spent 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, watched by cameras and eating small meals that left him hungry.“I was locked up all day in a little room — I counted the feet: 7 wide and 13 long — without being able to do anything, without a book, looking at the walls,” Bastidas, 25, said in his father’s middle-class home in the western city of Maracaibo, Venezuela.

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland
Jhoan Bastidas was deported from the United States and spent 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, watched by cameras and eating small meals that left him hungry.“I was locked up all day in a little room — I counted the feet: 7 wide and 13 long — without being able to do anything, without a book, looking at the walls,” Bastidas, 25, said in his father’s middle-class home in the western city of Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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