The segment, which has been reviewed by The Verge, is a little shy of 14 minutes long. It features video of men, chained and bent double, being "paraded in front of cameras, pushed onto buses, and delivered to CECOT," according to the segment's narration. One former detainee, who CBS met in Colombia, said he was told he was "the living dead" at CECOT.
For me, not only is it an honor to represent El Salvador, I grew up here, but unfortunately, again, we are in another cycle of migration at this moment. For El Salvador, this is the first time we will host our own pavilion-I am filled with joy and happiness. As an artist, I feel very blessed.
Ifirst heard the expression "strategic incompetence" in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I'd been recruited to do some electoral training there. We were working with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a coalition of leftist parties that had led a long-running guerrilla war against a series of US-backed autocratic governments. I'd visited El Salvador once before, during the 1989 elections, when armed troops were overseeing the voting.
Claudia Ortiz, 38, has become the most visible political figure in the opposition to Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. Her political capital is far from matching the president's propaganda machine and overwhelming popularity, but today she is the only leader in the country mentioned as a possible option for a possible post-Bukele era. The outlook, in any case, seems distant. Bukele maintains control over all three branches of government, including the Legislative Assembly, where Ortiz is a representative.
"We are demanding that the administration bring back everyone from CECOT to the United States, release them ICE custody, return them to their homes and families and allow them their day in court."
"We learned the stories of monsters, killers, satanic worship, human sacrifice, invaders to our land... Until they entered CECOT, they are a threat to America and El Salvador no more."