Recently, a quite interesting controversy erupted around Saskia Niño de Rivera and her podcast Penitencia. It all started when, in one of the episodes, a guest named 'Beto' mentioned Carmen Salinas and claimed to have committed crimes for her. The actress's daughter quickly responded denying the accusations, and of course, social media exploded with speculation about who else might have been mentioned.

What many didn't realize is that Saskia Niño de Rivera censored other names in that same segment but left Carmen Salinas's name visible. That only fueled the fire further. But here’s the important part: she clarified that the conversation was veering completely off-topic.

In a video on social media, Saskia Niño de Rivera was very clear: Penitencia is not an entertainment or gossip podcast. It is an educational project used in police schools, criminology faculties, and in the training of psychologists and lawyers. The idea is to listen to people deprived of liberty to understand what’s behind their stories, not to judge them or turn them into spectacle.

'What happens in a society when thousands of children grow up in environments of extreme violence?' was the question she posed. Sexual abuse, abandonment, trauma, school dropout. That’s what she truly cares about documenting.

Saskia Niño de Rivera explained that when names appear in testimonies, it’s because they are part of the narrative of the person telling their story, not because the goal is to point fingers at anyone. The focus has never been the celebrity mentioned but what that story represents: thousands of children living with violence in the country.

Beto’s story isn’t about Carmen Salinas. It’s about how untreated trauma perpetuates cycles of violence. It’s about broken childhoods that no one is seeing. That’s what Saskia Niño de Rivera wanted us to understand, and probably what most people overlooked while focusing on the censored names. The real conversation is somewhere else.