El Salvador to send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti for rescue while elections postponed
El Salvador said the deployment will help rescue four missing technicians and bolster anti-gang operations as Haiti keeps election plans on hold.
- President Nayib Bukele announced on Wednesday that El Salvador will deploy more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue four missing personnel and support anti-gang security operations.
- Four Salvadoran aircraft technicians were ambushed in Port-au-Prince over a week ago, prompting Bukele to initially deploy hundreds of soldiers to the Caribbean nation to conduct the rescue.
- During their Wednesday call, Bukele and Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime reaffirmed commitment to the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force, discussing reinforced bilateral coordination to address security challenges.
- Haiti's electoral council postponed planned presidential elections until next year, scheduling the first round for July 18, 2027, followed by local elections on October 4, 2027.
- The Caribbean nation has not held elections since 2016 and its last president was assassinated in 2021, as successive transitional leaders repeatedly delayed voting amid expanding criminal territorial control.
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Bukele justified the operation as a rescue of four compatriots who disappeared after an ambush of gangs, but did not specify how long the soldiers will remain or what their powers will be.
Bukele: Deployment of Salvadoran soldiers not an invasion of Haiti; seek return of missing technicians
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asserted that the deployment of Salvadoran soldiers in Haiti is not an invasion, but that the goal remains the return of the four aviation technicians who were purportedly kidnapped.
El Salvador Deploys 2,000 Troops to Haiti
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti in a move human rights advocates say could further destabilize the nation and add to rising violence. Trump has reportedly backed Bukele’s deployment of troops, with Bukele claiming his soldiers only intend to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians who’d been kidnapped by gangs in Haiti. Back in El Salvador, Bukele’s so-called state of exception, first decla…
The detained uniforms were part of an international force backed by the UN. Faced with the fact, President Nayib Bukele demanded the immediate release of the hostages and issued a warning to the criminal gangs.
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