he still sees himself as American. Despite everything, EVERYTHING, this government and this nation did to him, he sees the strangers and neighbors who rallied to his side because it was RIGHT, and he chooses to believe in that America. He looks at America and sees HOME.
"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American."
He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience.
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The Venezuelan makeup artist who became the face of a controversial deportation case discusses life after release, lingering trauma, and the men whose stories he believes the world has forgotten.
