The Latest Breaking News from CECOT

‘Bari Weiss screwed up’: CBS tried to kill the CECOT expose, actually broadcast it by mistake, Streisand effect now in full force

Cartoonish levels of incompetency.

We Got This Covered · Dec 23, 2025

Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison

Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’

The Guardian - US · Dec 22, 2025

‘Holy f***ing dumpster fire’: Bari Weiss sparks ‘revolt’ at ‘60 Minutes’ by spiking CECOT segment

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s going to be fascinating to see how far Bari is willing to double down on the piece ‘not ready’ argument and or/attack Sharyn and [60 Minutes],’ one CBS News staffer told The Independent.

The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2025

Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown. Nigel Farage wants to employ a similar policy in Britain if Reform UK comes to power

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2025

Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2025

Trump DOJ official’s vulgar courthouse threat just got exposed, and the $5 million deal behind it is even worse

Trump paid El Salvador to torture migrants with zero legal help.

We Got This Covered · Sep 9, 2025

A Venezuelan-US Love Story Crushed By Trump's Migrant Crackdown

Andry Hernandez jumped through hoops to claim asylum in the United States, hopeful of beginning a new life with an American man he met on Instagram -- only to be doomed by an innocent pair of wrist tattoos that landed him in a brutal El Salvador prison.

International Business Times · Sep 6, 2025

What did a US court rule on Tren de Aragua deportations?

Alien Enemies Act cannot deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but deportations proceed under immigration laws.

Al Jazeera · Sep 4, 2025

‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison

Arturo Suárez and others deported in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at Cecot

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2025

Venezuelan men deported to notorious CECOT prison say they were raped and beaten by guards

‘There were so many moments of anguish and terror,’ former detainee says

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2025