Deported from Tampa, Venezuelan asylum-seeker recounts time in El Salvador’s mega-prison

Frengel Reyes, 25, said he still has trouble sleeping with the lights off.

Ever since returning to his parents’ home in Zulia, Venezuela, in July, Reyes said he’s haunted by the four months he spent in El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, where at night, guards beat the detainees in the dark.

“Their treatment was inhumane,” Reyes said in Spanish, “I didn’t understand it at all.”…

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