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Tom Phillips in Santiago

‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

a woman carrying a baby
Nathali Sánchez, the wife of Arturo Suárez Trejo, holds their baby, Nahiara, in a recording studio in Santiago, Chile, on 15 April. Photograph: Cristóbal Olivares/The Guardian

In a recording studio in downtown Santiago, where the dad she has never met once sung, a four-month-old baby girl snuggles in her mother’s arms, noise-cancelling earmuffs shielding her tiny ears from the sound.

Nahiara Rubí Suárez Sánchez is equally oblivious to the plight of her father, a Venezuelan musician who is thought to be languishing in a maximum-security prison thousands of miles away in El Salvador after being swept up in Donald Trump’s anti-migrant crusade.

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