(23 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lobatera, Venezuela – 23 July 2025
1. Various of Gabriela Mora, wife of deportee Carlos Uzcátegui, and her daughter waiting outside their house for her husband to be brought home
2. Patrol truck arriving, mother and daughter looking on
3. Mora breaking into tears as she spots the patrol bringing her husband home
4. Carlos Uzcátegui stepping outside patrol and hugging with wife and stepdaughter
5. Uzcátegui hugging and speaking brothers and wife. UPSOUND (Spanish) “I thought I would never see you again”.
6. Uzcategui hugging mother
7. Uzcategui and his brothers
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Uzcátegui, Venezuelan deportee:
“I was asleep and then I tried opening my eyes and thought to myself: may it not be a lie, may this not be a lie. I really want to be free”
9. Various of Uzcátegui showing a mildly bruised left abdomen
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Uzcátegui, Venezuelan deportee:
“I have several bruises on my body, on my stomach. They beat us, they kicked us. That riot lasted for about two hours, with them firing at us. Some comrades were hurt in the face, in the neck, the legs, the chest”.
11. Uzcátegui and his wife entering their house
12. Uzcátegui hugging with his wife at home the lattpresent er decorated with friends to welcome him
13. A sign on top of the Venezuelan map on the Venezuelan flag colors, reading (Spanish) “Welcome home, my love.”
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Mora, wife of deportee Uzcátegui:
“I have peace, I really have peace. It’s what I needed, for him to step into his house and know he’s okay. From now on, he’ll be alright.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Capacho, Venezuela – 23 July 2025
15. Deportee Andry Hernández arriving home in patrol
16. Hernández being hugged by mother, father, and brother as they cried of joy
17. Hernández, showing crown tattoos
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andry Hernández, Venezuelan deportee:
“It was a nightmare that I thought would never end. But today I can say that torture and nightmare are over, and now I can be happy again.”
19. Mother of Andry Hernández, closing his eyes as she shows a balloon arrangement and surprise to him
20. Hernández hugging his mother and crying
21. His brother putting a crown on him
22. Andry kissing his emotional father and father returning the kiss
STORYLINE:
In the early light of a chilly Wednesday morning in Venezuela’s Andean mountains, Gabriela Mora and her daughter finally witnessed the moment they had long awaited.
When a national guard patrol drove down the trail leading to her home, she crouched on the ground and burst into tears.
Her husband, Carlos Uzcátegui, stepped out of the patrol, and she ran to him.
They tightly hugged and cried.
The family’s first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a prison in El Salvador was over.
Uzcátegui was among the migrants returning with loved ones after four months in prison in El Salvador, where the U.S. government transferred them in one of its boldest moves to crack down on immigration.
"I was on the way here and I was asleep and then I tried opening my eyes and thought to myself: may it not be a lie, may this not be a lie. I really want to be free", Uzcátegui said.
The migrants, some of whom characterized El Salvador’s prison as "hell," were freed Friday in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments.
However, it wasn’t until Tuesday that Venezuela’s government released some of them, such as Uzcátegui, who arrived home after an over 30-hour bus trip.
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