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 U.S. State Department is not commenting on why Dahud Hanid Ortiz a man convicted of murdering three people in Madrid was among the 10 U.S. citizens released by Venezuela last week as part of a prisoner exchange.

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown have reunited with their families