Gay makeup artist deported by ICE describes horrific torture at CECOT
After 125 days in silence, detained inside an El Salvador concrete fortress built to disappear people, gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero is finally home in Venezuela, alleging he was tortured, sexually abused, and denied food while detained under a Trump administration deportation order that erased him from society.
“It was an encounter with torture and death,” Hernández, 32, told journalists at his family home in Capacho on Wednesday, describing how he and others were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, and confined in dark cells, before they were suddenly freed on Friday. “Many of our fellows have wounds from the nightsticks; they have fractured ribs, fractured fingers and toes, marks from the handcuffs,” he said, according to Reuters. “Others have marks on their chests, on their face ... from the projectiles.”
In a televised interview aired on Venezuelan state media Monday, Hernández alleged sexual abuse by guards. The Venezuelan attorney general has said his office will investigate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele over the reported torture of Venezuelan nationals, Reuters reports. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the abuse claims Tuesday, calling the deported men “criminal, illegal gang members,” Reuters reports.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 26, 2025 4:31 AM
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Did he enjoy the sexual part?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 25, 2025 10:46 PM
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Now write a harrowing book like "Midnight Express" and make big money.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 25, 2025 11:16 PM
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I hope Pedro Pascal plays him on the big screen. Easy Oscar.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 25, 2025 11:22 PM
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What’s most infuriating is our government is still slandering these men! Calling them liars to protect Bukele is disgusting.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 25, 2025 11:25 PM
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Holocaust vibes, & I don’t say this lightly.
How the fuck can Americans not see this?
When you make America unsafe for people who are NOT criminals, & in this country legally, you make this country unsafe for us all, including Jews.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2025 12:00 AM
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Fuck Trump
Fuck Noem
USA needs Nuremberg trials for what they did to these men
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2025 1:35 AM
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I’m so glad he has been freed.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2025 1:42 AM
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The next Democrat president should have the Salvadoran leader murdered.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2025 1:45 AM
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Kristi Noem is a child of Satan.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 26, 2025 1:48 AM
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[quote]r9 = How the fuck can Americans not see this?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 26, 2025 1:57 AM
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The Nuremberg trials were staged by liberators. No one is coming to save us, R10.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 26, 2025 2:03 AM
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Well, it looks like he got to brush his perfect teeth regularly, at least.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 26, 2025 2:33 AM
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R14 Great clip. Americans may not know the details but we know it is bad. The place is basically a concentration camp. They're sending people to "prisons" with no formal sentence... Exactly what these folks serving? What is the length of their 'sentence." None. They're sending them to die or to be tortured.
This American isn't surprised by the gay hairstylist's remarks. What surprises me is that he got out of that place alive.
This entire period is going to be a historical embarrassment for the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 26, 2025 2:52 AM
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This lovely man--I am just so overwhelmed with happiness for his release. Look at his eyes in that photo. I can't even imagine the relief he must feel to have been freed from that hell hole.
He has a long path ahead of him in terms of trauma recovery. He's suffered so much in his short life. I hope he's able to apply for political asylum somewhere in Europe that will be a less cruel and punishing place than America where he can find safety and healing.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 26, 2025 3:00 AM
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As a former drag queen, I do not like to see our makeup artists abused!
Poor lamb [bold]: (
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 26, 2025 3:26 AM
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There's no such thing as a *former* drag queen, r19. You just don't have your face on.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 26, 2025 3:38 AM
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skiddy panties fave made themselves known
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 26, 2025 4:08 AM
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Turns out everything we learned about America; every time we said the pledge of allegiance—it’s all a lie
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 26, 2025 4:31 AM
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