El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has taken his war on gangs to Haiti. After four Salvadoran aviation technicians serving with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force were ambushed and went missing on October 18, Bukele sent more than 2,000 troops, armored vehicles and attack helicopters to Port-au-Prince.
His warning to Haiti’s gangs: "We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too."
But the four men are still missing, the UN says Salvadoran troops are operating outside its framework, and critics question whether Bukele’s model can work in a country where gangs control an estimated 90% of the capital.
In this live stream:
• The October 18 ambush and the search for the four missing technicians
• How El Salvador went from 124 personnel to 2,000+ troops in Haiti
• The first Salvadoran ground offensive and helicopter strikes
• Who controls Haiti’s gangs — the Viv Ansanm coalition
• Haiti’s government backs Bukele — but who’s in command?
• Can the "Bukele model" work outside El Salvador?
Tell us in the chat: Can Bukele succeed in Haiti where every other mission has failed?
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Sources: AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera, AFP, Haitian Times, UN.
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