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Afraid that “Jorge” might suffer the same fate as fellow peaceful protestors who had been imprisoned and beaten or “disappeared,” he and his wife decided to flee to the U.S. with their two-year-old daughter.

For over a decade, “Ana” weathered a storm of violence unleashed by her husband’s cruel hands. The scars of his brutality marred her body and soul after he held a knife to her throat, smashed her head against furniture, dragged…