#cecot

CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.

Paramount and Larry Ellison killed a brand, much like Elon Musk with Twitter.

PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

This is the CECOT prison in El Salvador where 45 is sending people without criminal records.

This satellite image is from March 20, 2024 and appears to show blood and bodies on CECOT grounds near a shack that was constructed sometime between November and March of that year. If you look at the same area in earlier imaging, the additional shack is not pictured and the red stains and debris are also not pictured.

This was posted 2 hours before the show was set to air:

Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who worked on the story, sent this email to her colleagues:

More in the New York Times

ETA: Bari Weiss’s statement

From earlier in the year:

60 Minutes postponed a segment on the maximum security prison in El Salvador that President Donald Trump sent suspected gangsters and illegal immigrants to, only a few hours before the report was set to air on Sunday.

The CBS program had been planning to air the segment titled “Inside CECOT,” referring to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo.

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Democratic lawmakers are preparing to travel to El Salvador with the goal of securing the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was abducted by the Trump administration and mistakenly sent to a brutal maximum security prison in the Central American nation. On Sunday, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen sent a letter to Milena Mayorga, El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States, requesting a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss the matter. “If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” Van Hollen said in a statement. Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida offered to join Van Hollen on his trip. “We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador,” Frost said in a post on Bluesky. Recently elected Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona said she hoped to join the delegation, as has Rep. Robert Garcia of California. While Democrats are the minority in the House and Senate, these members are using the power of their elected offices to draw attention to Garcia’s wrongful detention and possibly secure his release. Democrats have been under fire from their base for not doing enough to oppose Trump’s lawless actions since he took office in January. On Monday, at a White House appearance alongside Bukele, Trump pretended to be powerless to secure Garcia’s release. His administration has admitted in court that Garcia was wrongly deported to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. Bukele also claimed he was unable to release the man and referred to him as a “terrorist threat.” Despite the Supreme Court ruling that Garcia, who is a Salvadoran citizen and legal U.S. resident, should be returned, Trump called reporters “sick people” for asking about the issue.