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The first thing he told us was that we would never see the light of day or night again. He said, Welcome to hell,' recalled Luis Munoz Pinto, a Venezuelan college student now living in Colombia, who speaks in the segment. He had traveled to the US seeking asylum and was arrested in 2024 at his appointment with US Customs and Border Protection in California. They just looked at me and told me I was a danger to society, Pinto recalled. He told correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi he had no criminal record. I never even had a traffic ticket.

The now infamous terrorism confinement centre, known as Cecot, is Latin America's largest prison with capacity for 40,000 inmates. In March, the Trump administration struck a deal with El Salvador to send there more than 250 Venezuelan migrants that it accused of accused of terrorism and gang membership. Horror stories have since emerged about abuse that they are alleged to have endured, with lawyers for some of the men who were later released describing the conditions as state-sanctioned torture.

Tanya Simon, with 25 years of experience on 60 Minutes, has been named executive producer after serving as interim executive producer since April. She has significantly contributed to the show.

"Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it. To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience."