(22 Jul 2025)
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Lobatera, Tachira, Venezuela- 21 July 2025
1. Various of Gabriela Mora standing at the entrance of her home
2. Various of Mora and friends decorating her home to welcome her husband Carlos Uzcategui, a Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador by the United States
3. Mora standing next to hand-written sign reading: “Welcome home. We love you, my love”
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Mora, 30, wife of deportee:
I trembled from excitement (when she saw her husband landing on Venezuela last Friday). Because these past four months have been a total nightmare. Having children made this even more difficult. Every night she asked if her dad was being fed, being given water, if he can sleep. I needed to lie to her."
5. Various of Mora and friends decorating
6. Various of Mora speaking on the phone with her husband. UPSOUND (Spanish) “I’m waiting for you my love, I love you! He says they would let them leave tonight or tomorrow morning”
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Mora, wife of deportee:
“I will continue the legal action with the teams that have been supporting me since day one, for my husband being taken there (El Salvador). I know that the government will dismiss being sued, because the government has also been sued for many things. This is just like speaking to a wall. But I for one am going to continue, because the fact that he has been released does not erase the suffering of these four months.”
Capacho, Tachira, Venezuela- 20 July 2025
8. View of Capacho town
Capacho, Tachira, Venezuela – 21 July 2025
9. Alexis Romero, mother of deportee Andry Hernández, entering kitchen to bake cookies
10. Romero lighting up oven
11. Various of Romero organizing cookies to bake on tray. UPSOUND (Spanish) “What he needs to see doctors for help.”
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alexis Romero, mother of deportee
"From now on that chapter is like this: sealed. There are no winners here. He needs to start a new life. Because through this year — almost half a year — he was born again to me. He came back to life. For all of us. For the three of us. He brought me back to life.”
13. Romero wearing a medal with the face of her son
14. Various of picture of her son at her house
STORYLINE:
Venezuelan families are anxiously waiting to reunite with their loved ones who arrived in Venezuela last Friday after spending months in El Salvador mega-prison.
Carlos Uzcategui and Andry Hernández Romero told their families to wait for them during Tuesday’s early hours.
They were released among the 250 migrants on Friday by El Salvador in exchange for 10 U.S. nationals jailed in Venezuela, and as part of a three-country arrangement.
Over 250 migrants Venezuelans were held in a prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, which was built to hold alleged gang members in Bukele’s war on the country’s gangs.
Human rights groups have documented hundreds of deaths as well as cases of torture inside its walls.
In the calm slopes of Venezuelan Andes in Tachira state, Gabriela Mora is getting ready to welcome her husband, Carlos Uzcategui, back home.
With the help of close friends and her mother, she arranged balloons, presents, a cake and a hand-written sign reading “Welcome home. We love you, my love.”
Since their arrival on Friday, the migrants have been doing interviews on state television, paperwork and some of them called their loved ones over the phone, including Mora’s husband.
“I’m waiting for you my love, I love you!”, Mora said as their friends cheered with emotion.
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