US EditionMakeup Artist Is One of the US Deportees Sent From El Salvador to Venezuela, Congressman Says
VENEZUELA, JUL 18 – The prisoner swap returned 252 Venezuelan migrants held in El Salvador’s CECOT prison in exchange for 10 Americans freed from Venezuelan detention, officials said.
- On July 18, 2025, a plane carrying 252 Venezuelan men deported months earlier by the U.S. to El Salvador landed at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela.
- These men had been held at El Salvador's CECOT prison after their deportation in March under the Trump administration's Alien Enemies Act immigration crackdown.
- Their return was part of a three-nation prisoner swap involving the release of American citizens and Venezuelan political prisoners held by Maduro's government.
- California Congressman Robert Garcia confirmed that Andry Hernández Romero, a Venezuelan makeup artist deported by the U.S. and held in CECOT, was sent back in this swap.
- The swap raised ongoing concerns about legal jurisdiction and due process related to the deportees and political prisoners on both sides.
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The planes with Venezuelan migrants who were sent by the United States to the megacarcel of Salvadoran gang members landed on Friday at the airport serving Caracas, following an exchange of prisoners between the governments of Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro. The 252 detainees were sent in March - without trial - to the dreaded Center for Confining Terrorism (Cecot) after being pointed out by the government of President Donald Trump to belong to…
The US had deported more than 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. Now the men are back in Venezuela. The South American country for its part released US citizens.
Was Bartering Venezuelans Always the Plan? - emptywheel
Yesterday, 252 Venezuelan men who had been held in CECOT concentration camp were flown to Venezuela. Among the people who survived their detention in El Salvador are Andry José Hernández Romero (the gay stylist), Neri Alvarado Borges (the guy kidnapped because of his autism-solidarity tattoo), and Christian, who came to the US as an unaccompanied minor and should have been protected under a prior agreement. The government including this declarat…
They spent four months in solitary confinement at the Center for the Confining of Terrorism (Cecot), the megacarcel built by Nayib Bukele to lock up gang members in El Salvador. This Friday they arrived in Venezuela after an exchange of prisoners with three gangs that involved Bukele himself, the Administration of Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro. After seven o’clock in the afternoon they landed at Maiquetía airport two planes with the 252 Venezu…
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