Jerce Reyes Barrios is one of several hundred Venezuelans sent by the Trump administration to an infamous Salvadoran prison for indefinite detention without charge. Advertisement“The only thing I can say is human rights don’t exist there,” Reyes Barrios told HuffPost on Tuesday. On July 18, his 125th day at CECOT, Reyes Barrios and the other Venezuelan detainees were transferred back to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap. The former CECOT detainees had been held incommunicado, with no access to loved ones or lawyers. It would be another 70 days before the Venezuelan CECOT detainees left the prison.

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2025 21:17 UTC