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 United States naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, guarded by cameras and eating small portions that left him hungry.

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.

Mirelis Casique’s son, 24, spoke to her for the last time on Saturday morning from a detention center in Laredo, Texas. He told her he was going to be expelled with a group of Venezuelans, but he didn’t know where they were going. By The New York Times Shortly afterwards, his name disappeared from the U.S. immigration authorities’ website. Since then, Casique hasn’t heard from him again. “Now he’s in an abyss and who’s going to rescue him,” he s…

Judge Allows Migrants To Be Held At Guantanamo Military Base

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