Deported Venezuelan says he's 'traumatized' by his time in Guantánamo

Kevin Rodríguez, now back in Venezuela, said the uncertainty of not knowing how long he would be in the U.S. military facility was what worried him the most.

A young Venezuelan who was deported back to his country said he was "traumatized" by his time in a U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Kevin Rodríguez, 22, is one of the 178 Venezuelan immigrants sent to Guantánamo this month, after President Donald Trump's order to use the detention camp to speed up his administration's goal of mass deportations.

In an exclusive interview with Noticias Telemundo, NBC’s Spanish-language sister network, Rodríguez detailed the conditions he said he experienced at the military prison during the two weeks he was detained before returning to Venezuela on Thursday.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to emails seeking comment about Rodríguez’s case and his allegations about the conditions in Guantánamo.

Rodríguez said the cobwebs and ants inside the approximately 6 by 9 feet cell gave the sense that the place had long been unoccupied. "Those cells were in very bad condition," he said in one of the first personal accounts from a migrant detained there. "You could really see that no one had been there in a long time. They didn't even clean them."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-venezuelan-guantanamo-conditions-traumatized-rcna193432

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