El Salvador to send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti for rescue while elections postponed
The deployment aims to rescue four missing technicians and bolster anti-gang operations as Haiti’s electoral council cites insecurity in postponing the vote.
- 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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The United Nations is distancing itself from El Salvador’s unprecedented military buildup in Haiti, confirming that the vast majority of the Central American nation’s troops are operating outside the Gang Suppression Force authorized by its Security Council and beyond the…
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele , who ended the gangs in his country, after years of violence becoming a reference in the fight against these groups throughout the region, has sent troops this week to Haiti to rescue four soldiers of his armed forces who disappeared on the Caribbean island. It is a contingent of 2,000 soldiers. The missing elements were ambushed by gangs that control part of the poorest country in the hemisphere. Last…
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El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, with the argument of the search for his country's four military personnel who have disappeared for almost two weeks, unilaterally launches his own campaign
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.
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