{"id":67878,"date":"2026-03-03T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/venezuelan-man-says-his-rose-tattoos-got-him-deported-to-el-salvadors-brutal-prison-i-thought-my-life-had-ended\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:44","slug":"venezuelan-man-says-his-rose-tattoos-got-him-deported-to-el-salvadors-brutal-prison-i-thought-my-life-had-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/venezuelan-man-says-his-rose-tattoos-got-him-deported-to-el-salvadors-brutal-prison-i-thought-my-life-had-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador\u2019s brutal prison: \u2018I thought my life had ended\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration accused Luis Mu\u00f1oz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was the busiest hour of the evening in Bolivar Square, one of the most iconic spots in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia\u2019s capital. Amid the buzz of smiling tourists, however, Luis Mu\u00f1oz Pinto sat very still, his head in his hands, as memories of his deportation from the United States to a Salvadorian prison flooded back.<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1oz Pinto, 27, was one of more than 250 Venezuelan men accused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> of being part of the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/16\/deportation-alleged-gang-members-el-salvador\">deported from the US<\/a> to the brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/el-salvador-cecot-mega-prison-trump\">terrorism mega-prison<\/a> called Cecot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/el-salvador\">El Salvador<\/a> last March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/man-deported-tattoos-cecot-el-salvador\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration accused Luis Mu\u00f1oz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the US It was the busiest hour of the evening in Bolivar Square, one of the most iconic spots in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia\u2019s capital. Amid the buzz &#8230; <a title=\"Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador\u2019s brutal prison: \u2018I thought my life had ended\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/venezuelan-man-says-his-rose-tattoos-got-him-deported-to-el-salvadors-brutal-prison-i-thought-my-life-had-ended\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador\u2019s brutal prison: \u2018I thought my life had ended\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}