The family's first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a prison in El Salvador was over.Uzcátegui was among the migrants being reunited with loved ones after four months in prison in El Salvador,

The State Department did not say how he came to be released alongside a group of “wrongfully detained” prisoners.

The U.S. State Department is not commenting on why Dahud Hanid Ortiz a man convicted of murdering three people in Madrid was among the 10 U.S. citizens released by Venezuela last week as part of a prisoner exchange.