A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death.

The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans being held in Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X.

STORY: Arturo Suarez tearfully reunited with his family in Venezuela on Tuesday after being released from a months-long detention in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison."I thought of my daughter, thought of my wife,