(22 Jul 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 22 July 2025
1. Paola Paiva, Arturo Suarez’ sister, standing on the street as intelligence police patrol driving Suarez stops
2. Various of family hugging Suarez
3. Various of Suarez and family arriving home
4. Suarez hugging his brother and sister
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arturo Suarez, deportee:
"When they put me on the bus they told me that you will be out of here in 90 years. Then I really gave up, I asked God that my family would forgive me and that someone would come into my daughter’s and my wife’s life who loved them as much as I love them, and the first month I really gave up (and wanted) to die.”
6. Various of Suarez with family
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arturo Suarez, deportee:
"I feel very proud of myself, of the 252 comrades who are the first living beings to come out of that prison which is a hell and where we met many innocent people. To all those who mistreated us, to all those who negotiated with our lives and our freedom, I say something and the word says it well: vengeance and justice is mine and you are going to give an account to God.”
8. Suarez crying while speaking on a video call with family
9. Suarez showing heart made with paper and tooth paste
10. Suarez’s uncle crying
11. Suarez speaking on the phone
STORYLINE:
The family of urban music singer Arturo Suarez burst into tears and hugs as they welcomed him home in Caracas, Venezuela, after he spent months jailed in El Salvador.
A patrol from Venezuela’s intelligence police escorted him to his home.
Suarez, and over 250 other Venezuelan migrants, spent months held in an El Salvador mega-prison which was built to hold alleged gang members in President Nayib Bukele’s war on the country’s gangs.
They were deported by the United States under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, and accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang.
An accusation many of the families like Suarez’ have strongly denied.
Speaking with journalists while surrounded by his family, Suarez denounced beatings and ill treatment by El Salvador’s prison guards.
Many of their families spent months demanding their release, insisting on their innocence.
Suarez’ case gained international attention after videos of his music surfaced online.
The deportees were sent back to Venezuela on Friday after a complex, three-country arrangement that also led to the release of 10 U.S. citizens and permanent residents jailed in Venezuela in exchange for bringing home migrants like Suarez.
AP Video by Andry Rincon
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