The gay makeup artist for Trump says that the guards sexually assaulted him

A Gay makeup artist from Venezuela who legally entered the United States last year only to be deported to the notorious prison of El Salvador for gang members in March says that the guards sexually assaulted him during his stay of 125 days, according to a heartbreaking account he shared with the Washington Post.

Andry Hernández, whose brutal trip through the United States immigration system has been widely documented by the media and human rights groups, says that the officers of the prison of El Salvador, the Center for Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, led him to an isolation cell, where four officers placed their clubs between their legs and one did it to perform the oral sex in it.

“It’s a nightmare. I thought it would never end,” Hernández said about his time at Cecot when he returned to Venezuela last month as part of an international prison exchange.

The crime for which he was being punished was to bathe in an attempt to cool off.

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Hernández, now 32 years old, legally entered the United States last year with an immigration appointment, and a border agent of the United States at the California crossing determined that he was credible for persecution as a gay man who lived in Venezuela. But he was immediately arrested at a migration center, which is still led by the Biden administration, and questioned due to its snake tattoos and crown, which US authorities have linked to the Venezuelan gang Train of Aragua.

That was the only evidence they had against him, his friends and family told CNN earlier this year. He told them that the lawyers and a judge who handled his case indicated that things were progressing favorably for him, and that they would soon be released in the United States, far from the homophobic harassment he faced while working on a television network affiliated with the government.

On the other hand, it became one of the hundreds of migrants that the Trump administration charged on the planes in March and brought Cecot, a prison that the Salvadoran government opened in 2023, where Trump officials boast that they send the “worst of the worst illegal criminal.”

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Hernández told the post that he begged the guards while shouting for his mother.

“Why do I shave my head?” He said he asked them. “I am a makeup stylist, I am gay, I am not a member of a gang.”

Hernández is one of the 16 former CECOT inmates who talked to the position about their time at Cecot, where they were taken after the United States paid the Salvadoran government Nayib Bukele $ 6 million to retain them and other Venezuelans.

According to their accounts, they were “subjected to repeated balls that left them bruised, bleeding or wounds”, and the “prison staff restricted medical care for detainees suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure or renal insufficiency.” They remained in a full room without windows, forced to sleep in metal literas, usually without damping. They had no access to lawyers.

Cecot “seemed to be for animals”, former detainee Julio Fernández Sánchez told the post. “It was designed for people to go crazy or commit suicide.”

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Another, Marco Jesús Basulto Salinas, described what he called “the most perverse form of humiliation” of medical staff. “The doctor would see us beaten and then ask us ‘How do you feel?’ With a smile, ”he recalled.

Lived in the United States with a temporary protected state, legally working In restaurants to send money home for his mother’s breast cancer treatments, when he was taken to Cecot.

Those who talked to the position reminded some detainees who tried to commit suicide “ Cut the sheets around your necks or use rusty pipes to cut your veins. ”

Damian Merlo, the United States Cabildo for Bukele, told The Post that his statements have no foundation. “Tricia Mclaughlin, spokesman for the National Security Department, insisted that the detainees were members of the Trena de Aragua gang.