Journey to hell and back


Perozo showing his tattoo during an interview in the Los Pescadores neighbourhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela. — AFP

MERVIN Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

But after a perilous jungle march, US detention, and long months in a Salvadoran jail surviving riots, beatings and fear, he has returned home a wounded and changed man.

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