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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Regina Garcia Cano and Gisela Salomon

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland

Venezuela Immigrant Detention - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Jhoan Bastidas was deported from the United States and spent 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, watched by cameras and eating small meals that left him hungry.

“I was locked up all day in a little room — I counted the feet: 7 wide and 13 long — without being able to do anything, without a book, looking at the walls,” Bastidas, 25, said in his father’s middle-class home in the western city of Maracaibo, Venezuela.

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