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Now back in Venezuela, Andry Hernández Romero recounted being detained in California for six months and then imprisoned in El Salvador for 125 days.

A gay makeup artist accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang, he became a symbol of the fight against what critics called wrongful U.S. deportations.

Hernández Romero said he wants to see his name cleared and those responsible for his abuse in prison face justice.

When a door slammed shut in the childhood home of Andry Hernández Romero, he wasn’t just startled. He winced, recoiling from the noise.

Nearly a month had passed since Hernández Romero, a 32-year-old makeup artist, and 251 other Venezuelans were released from a notor

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