Maracaibo, Venezuela, July 27, 2025 (AFP) - 'Welcome to hell': Freed migrants tell of horrors in Salvadoran jail

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2025-07-27

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life. But after a perilous jungle march, US detention, and long months in a Salvadoran jail surviving riots, beatings and fear, he has returned home a wounded and changed man. On entering the sweltering Caribbean port of Maracaibo, the first thing Yamarte did after hugging his mother and six-year-old daughter was to burn the baggy white prison shorts he wore during four......

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