The segment on the El Salvador prison, scheduled to air Dec. 21, made it to air Sunday with additional reporting.

More Venezuelans are describing their harrowing experiences at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison after being deported in the early months of the Trump administration.

Late last December, Weiss pulled a segment on the Trump administration deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a megaprison in El Salvador, titled “Inside CECOT.” The episode promised to reveal the “brutal and torturous conditions” inside El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, featuring interviews from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi.

Inaugurated in January 2023, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s government propaganda. Folha spent two hours inside the prison complex, which houses around 20,000 inmates—mostly gang members—under extreme conditions.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele traveled to Costa Rica during the final stretch of that country's presidential campaign, triggering a political tiff