Here is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be aired December 22, 2025 but was pulled last minute for unclear reasons. Despite being pulled, it aired on Global-TV in Canada anyway.
It was pulled due to corporate censorship.
Here is an analysis by Salon – Reader Supported News
CBS News segment yanked off the air at the last minute by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was apparently showcased in Canada, with its content quickly spreading online.
The “60 Minutes” story, “Inside CECOT,” featured testimonies from Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration from the U.S. to CECOT, a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador. Weiss canned the segment on Sunday, just three hours before it was set to air, saying it “wasn’t ready” to be presented.
“The only newsroom I’m interested in running is one in which we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest editorial matters with respect, and, crucially, where we assume the best intent of our colleagues,” Weiss told CNN.
However, a 13-minute portion appeared to air on Global TV’s free website and app for two hours before being removed, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
A prisoner featured in the segment tells “60 Minutes” corespondent Sharyn Alfonsi that he and others were taken to “a cell for punishment” which he described as “a little room where there’s no light, no ventilation, nothing.”
“After they locked us in, they came to beat us every half hour, and they pounded on the door with their sticks to traumatize us while we were in there,” the man tells Alfonsi.
The segment also includes comments made by President Donald Trump on El Salvador’s prisons, calling them “very strong facilities, and they don’t play games.” Also featured is White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who describes those sent to the facility as “heinous monsters.” The “60 Minutes” report found that the majority of those deported had non-violent or no criminal records.
In an internal memo obtained by the New York Times, Alfonsi defended her segment and called Weiss’s decision to scrap it “corporate censorship.”
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Alfonsi said. “It is factually correct.”
Philippe Bolopion, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said the organization is keen to see the segment released to highlight conditions at CECOT.
“The evidence is clear regardless of what airs on 60 Minutes,” Bolopion told CNN. “The Trump administration disappeared these Venezuelan men to a mega prison in El Salvador where they were systematically tortured.”
This is horrifying and could have happened to any one of us.
I agree, Ron, it’s horrifying, and not only could it have happened to any of us, it is still happening. They have plans to detain and deport millions of people. They are paying private contractors millions of our dollars to build “detention centers”, mostly in red states. From there they plan to basically, disappear them. They may send them back to the countries they fled from, or they may send them to some third world hell-hole, like CECOT. When that gets too expensive, what’s to stop them from tossing them from helicopters, like in Argentina?
Some of the people who were tossed from helicopters were the mothers of people who were tossed. What was their crime? Protesting the fact people were being tossed from helicopters.