Hernández attends mass with his mother, Dolores Alexis Romero de Hernández, in Capacho, Táchira state, Venezuela, on 24 July 2025.Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images (Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images) One of the Venezuelan men sent from the US to El Salvador’s most notorious prison by Donald Trump has moved to Spain to request asylum after concluding that he did not feel safe back home and did not trust US authorities sufficiently to return to fight his legal case.