"Inside CECOT" is a segment that was originally intended to be broadcast on the December 21, 2025, episode of 60 Minutes, a television news magazine from CBS News. Presented by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, the segment discusses the experiences of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum security prison in El Salvador used to confine Venezuelan migrants who had been deported from the US by the Trump administration in early 2025. The segment, which contains interviews with former detainees and photographic evidence detailing systematic torture at the facility, independently corroborates earlier conclusions made by Human Rights Watch. Reports by former detainees and journalists have described "El Salvador's CECOT" as a "living nightmare" and "hellscape" due to the extremely harsh conditions and high-tech surveillance present in the facility.
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A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
“You Have Arrived in Hell”
The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador. In March and April 2025, the US government sent 252 Venezuelans, including dozens of asylum seekers, to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, CECOT) mega prison in El Salvador, despite credible reports of serious human rights abuses in El Salvador’s prisons. The Venezuelans were subject to refoulement—being sent to where they would face torture or persecution—arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, inhumane detention conditions and, in some cases, sexual violence.
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“Llegaron al infierno”
El informe de 90 páginas, titulado “‘Llegaron al infierno’: Tortura y otros abusos contra venezolanos en el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo de El Salvador”, ofrece un análisis exhaustivo del trato que recibieron estas personas en El Salvador. En marzo y abril de 2025, el gobierno de Estados Unidos envió a 252 venezolanos, entre ellos, decenas de solicitantes de asilo, al Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) en El Salvador, a pesar de informes creíbles sobre graves violaciones de derechos humanos en las prisiones salvadoreñas. Los venezolanos fueron objeto de devolución— el envío de personas a un lugar donde corren peligro de sufrir tortura o persecución—, detención arbitraria, desaparición forzada, tortura, condiciones de detención inhumanas y, en algunos casos, violencia sexual.
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“You Have Arrived in Hell”
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