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Venezuelan Makeup Artist Returns Home, Describes Torture During El Salvador Detention

Andry Hernández Romero’s story highlights growing alarm over US immigration tactics and alleged abuses in El Salvador’s mega-prison.
Lindsay Toczylowski, whose client Andry José Hernández Romero has not been heard from since his deportation to El Salvador in March, forcefully defended the rule of law in a talk at The Business of Beauty Global Forum.
Lindsay Toczylowski, who represented Andry José Hernández Romero, talks at The Business of Beauty Global Forum. (Amy Sussman)

A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the US to El Salvador’s most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as “an encounter with torture and death.”

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