Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian outlet

Pulled by CBS News, a “60 Minutes” report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison was streamed in Canada.

While the furor over CBS News’ decision to delay a “60 Minutes” report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison persisted Monday, the finished segment was already circulating online after streaming in Canada.

The report, titled “Inside CECOT,” appeared on a streaming app owned by Canada’s Global Television Network. In the U.S., its broadcast was postponed by CBS under its new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

It includes interviews from people who were deported from the U.S. to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, under the Trump administration. The interviewees described torture and physical and sexual abuse at the complex.

“When we got there, the CECOT director was talking to us. The first thing he told us was that we would never see the light of day or night again,” Luis Munoz Pinto, a college student in Venezuela who went to the U.S. to seek asylum, told the TV news magazine.

Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are lined up by guards in their cells in El Salvador's CECOT prison in March. Salvadoran government via Getty Images file“He said, ‘Welcome to hell. I’ll make sure you never leave,’” said Munoz, who the report noted has since been released.