Months after his release from an El Salvador megaprison known for reported human rights abuses, a gay Venezuelan makeup artist is having trouble finding work because of how notoriety found him. Andry Jose Hernández Romero had been sent to the prison by the Trump administration earlier this year.

Hernández Romero, 32, told the Bay Area Reporter he is currently with his family in Venezuela. After opening up about his experiences at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known by the Spanish acronym CECOT, he stated, “Some beauty salons refuse to hire me because they associate me with criminality or say I belong to the Venezuelan government.”

He added that he is “attending to some clients who contact me because of all the labels imposed on us by the Trump administration.” 

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