Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara arrives in El Salvador after his deportation from the U.S. [View all]

In a live video posted on Facebook on Friday afternoon, Guevara is seen, escorted by El Salvador government officials, exiting a vehicle and hugging a woman who pointed a camera phone at him. "Hello, Mom," he said into the screen.

He looked toward the sky and said, "My country, my country, my country. Thank God. This isn't how I wanted to come to my country, but thank God."

Guevara then posted a photo of himself with reporting equipment, saying that he was "ready to continue working double from my country." In another post, he poses smiling with a plate of El Salvador's signature dish of flat corn cakes stuffed with cheese and other fillings.


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