A Venezuelan migrant who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison has filed an administrative claim over what he says was his wrongful removal from the U.S.

They were the worst 125 days of his life: locked up in a foreign prison, never knowing when or even if he would ever get out.

The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents.

Three of the 250 Venezuelans who were held in El Salvador's CECOT prison after bring deported from the U.S. say they were beaten and denied access to lawyers.

The "Cartel of the Suns" was designated a global terrorist entity by the US treasury, which imposed fresh sanctions.

Oswaldo Muñoz, entrepreneur, editor, community leader and a key figure in the history of the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States, died on July 25 in Madrid at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer.