Pedro Luis Salazar Cuervo
Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, 28, a father of three who helped build his local church left Venezuela in November 2024 to migrate to the US to work and raise money to help pay for surgery his mother needed. According to his sister he worked in Venezuela as an artisan making sombrero
On December 31, 2024 Pedro crossed over the Rio Grande with a group of migrants and surrendered to Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard soldiers. On his phone was a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos. Although Pedro has no tattoos,as confirmed in his booking sheet, that picture was used to link him to Tren de Aragua. Pedro’s brother stated he received a call on March 7 in which Pedro told him he had signed a document to be deported to Venezuela. By mid-March Pedro had been disappeared to El Salvador.
Pedro’s lawyers say the claim of gang affiliation is baseless, no evidence has been released, and request that he be brought back to the US to face these allegations. On June 17, a Texas judge agreed that he must be returned to stand trial for trespassing on private property, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison.Texas authorities have used this charge to arrest and detain thousands under the state’s border crackdown, Operation Lonestar, when they cross the border and rrive on private property. Days after Pedro’s detention and arrest, Gov. Abbott claimed Pedro and other Venezuelan Nationals were confirmed members of Tren de Aragua, and condemned the men as coming to gain a foot hold in Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/18/texas-dps-venezuelan-el-salvador-tren-de-aragua-deportation/
https://www.radiofeyalegrianoticias.com/un-apureno-detenido-en-el-salvador-habia-emigrado-para-costear-la-operacion-de-su-mama/
