The family of Colombian José Antonio Potes Cáez denounced the young man’s incarceration in the mega prison that Nayib Bukele built, so they don’t know what his situation is.

Potes, dazzled by the projected panorama of El Salvador, migrated from presumed safety after the arrest of thousands of people accused of belonging to gangs.

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According to the Colombian portal Noticias Uno, Potes, 27, had decided to migrate in January this year and was detained upon entering the country. His mother reported that they have not been able to see him because of the regime that prevails there.

Instead, his partner reported that the reason he would be arrested is because he would belong to the Mara 18 gang in Colombia. “Where’s a ‘Mara 18’ here?” he wondered.

Potes has no criminal record in Colombia and has a tattoo with his grandmother’s name and her dates of birth and death.

Tattoos are one of the marks used by the regime to identify suspected gang members, causing them to get rid of them. The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is investigating the matter.

Last March, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Bukele had a disagreement over the methods used in that country, such as the construction of a mega-prison to which described as a “concentration camp”.

El Salvador’s Vice President Félix Ulloa confessed that the large-scale operation they conducted may have erred and arrested some people not associated with the Mara Salvatrucha or the Barrio 18.