CBS pulls 60 Minutes report on El Salvador's CECOT prison hours before airtime Copy of note from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says segment pulled for 'political reasons' #BariWeiss #CECOT #ConcentrationCamps #ICE #Gestapo #WasteFraudAbuse #CBS #BuryWeiss www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

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CBS pulls 60 Minutes report on El Salvador's CECOT prison hours before airtime | CBC News

CBS News pulled a 60 Minutes report on El Salvador's CECOT prison just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time.

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The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador

We're discussing a Frontline and El Faro documentary about President Nayib Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the US says it is fighting.

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Primer macrojuicio contra Mara Salvatrucha: ¿por qué es clave en plena cruzada de Bukele contra las pandillas?

Primer macrojuicio contra Mara Salvatrucha: ¿por qué es clave en plena cruzada de Bukele contra las pandillas?
La Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador (FGR) llevó “por primera vez” a un juicio masivo a “las estructuras de mando” de la pandilla Mara Sa [...]

#CECOT #ElSalvador #LuchaContraLasPandillas #Macrojuicio #MaraSalvatrucha #Mundo #NayibBukele

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Primer macrojuicio contra Mara Salvatrucha: ¿por qué es clave en plena cruzada de Bukele contra las pandillas?

Primer macrojuicio contra Mara Salvatrucha: ¿por qué es clave en plena cruzada de Bukele contra las pandillas? Mundo - El Mundo CR

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"America, América": Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope

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Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S. : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/17/nx-s1-5721174/rights-groups-raise-alarm-over-fate-of-salvadorans-deported-from-us-trump

> Migrants deported from the U.S. routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many remain incommunicado from family and lawyers for years.

#ElSalvador #humanrights #CECOT #deportation #USA

…On March 15, 2025, #Boasberg issued a TRO barring the admin from transferring a group of Venezuelan immigrants to #ElSalvador under the #AlienEnemiesAct an 18th century #law. After the order was entered, 2 planeloads of immigrants protected by the order departed from the #US on their way to El Salvador, where they were locked up in #CECOT, one of the world’s most violent prisons. The admin said then DHS Secy Kristi Noem was responsible for the transfer decision.

#law #immigration #AbuseOfPower

“Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador opened the doors of his country’s notorious prison, #CECOT, for deportees the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Despite revelations that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations, as well as concerns about harsh treatment, both presidents touted the move as a win. FRONTLINE and reporters from the El Salvador news outlet El Faro investigate what was behind the controversial deal, and what each leader stood to gain.”

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The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS) + El Faro

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The #DOJ’s internal watchdog has seemingly ignored 20 instances of possible wrongdoing by the #Trump admin, lawyers for a #whistleblower said in a letter on Monday urging lawmakers to address the “apparent collapse” of an office meant to root out #misconduct.

The lawyers pointed to the case of their client, Erez Reuveni, who was fired in April last year amid a legal fight over the admin’s decision to send immigrants to #CECOT, a maximum-security prison in #ElSalvador. It

#law #LegalEthics

@maeve_bkk come the next administration, we can use #trumps agreement with #cecot to detain them. No need for due process or expected pardons there.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cecot-megaprison-el-salvador-bukele-trump-deportations-9.7027759

What we know about CECOT, the brutal mega-prison at the heart of the 60 Minutes controversy | CBC News

El Salvador's mega-prison known as CECOT is at the centre of President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on crime, U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies and the recent controversy about an unaired segment on the CBS news show 60 Minutes. Here's what we know about the so-called Terrorism Confinement Centre, where no loved ones or rehabilitation are allowed.

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