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The Guardian - US
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Clavel Rangel

‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life

a person takes a selfie with a large group of people behind them
‘I’ve been amazed by all the solidarity,’ Andry José Hernández Romero said. ‘All of Capacho, everything they’ve done.’ Photograph: courtesy of his friends and family

Andry José Hernández Romero has already picked out the color of the suit he’ll wear to the next celebration of the Three Kings festival in his home town in the Venezuelan Andes. The carnivalesque celebration of Epiphany inspired the tattoos that landed him behind bars in El Salvador, accused of belonging to Venezuela’s most feared criminal gang, Tren de Aragua.

The suit will be green, “like hope”, he said.

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