El Salvador to send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti for rescue while elections postponed
The deployment follows the disappearance of four Salvadoran technicians and comes as Haiti moves presidential elections to 2027 amid worsening gang violence.
- 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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El Salvador deployed a contingent of more than 2,000 military personnel to Haiti for the rescue operation of four Salvadoran soldiers who had disappeared.
Four soldiers from El Salvador have been missing for ten days after a gang ambush The post El Salvador deployed over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to locate the four missing appeared first on in.gr.
El Salvador is sending more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti in a large-scale operation to free four of its citizens who were previously abducted by local criminal organizations, the Central American country's Foreign Ministry announced early Thursday following a phone conversation between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.
President Nayib Bukele holds phone call with Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, says El Salvador's Foreign Ministry
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