He was deported, imprisoned and may never get out
Roberto Mosquera was flown to a country he’d never heard of. He may never leave it.
From The Times
August 14, 2026

Roberto Mosquera was born in Cuba and lived in the United States for nearly five decades. Last year, he was deported to Eswatini in southern Africa, a country he had never heard of, and was put in a maximum-security prison.

A portrait of a man with short hair and a gray goatee in orange “CORRECTIONAL” prison garb, against a slate-gray background, looking off into the distance.

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More than a year later, there is no sign he will ever be freed.

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