Journalist deported to El Salvador after covering protest. Here's what he had to say.
The United States deported a Georgia-based journalist to his native El Salvador, months after his arrest while streaming a protest.
Mario Guevara, 48, boarded a flight around 4 a.m. on Oct. 3. A federal appeals court earlier in the week denied his request to stop his removal, allowing his deportation to take place despite concerns raised by human rights, free speech and press freedom advocates.
In El Salvador, Guevara, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, emerged out of a Salvadoran Border Patrol truck along a roadway. Press flanked him as he returned to the country he left more than two decades ago.
“It’s not how I wanted to return to my country, but here I am,” he said, wiping away tears. His news outlet, MG News, was on scene streaming to tens of thousands of people on his Facebook page. A reporter immediately handed him a microphone.
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“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said Katherine Jacobsen, the North America program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, in a statement.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/03/journalist-deported-press-freedom/86504002007/?tbref=hp
So much for freedom of the press in this country!