The Guardian has some good reporting on El Salvador’s widening military mission in Haiti. After four Salvadoran personnel were kidnapped by Haitian gangs on October 18, President Nayib Bukele responded by sending more than 2,000 troops to Haiti. The new deployment of Salvadoran troops are operating outside the existing UN-backed Gang Suppression Force.
It’s an ambitious operation for a country of just six million people, only a few years out from its own brutal but effective crackdown on gangs. Apparently, Bukele has decided Haiti’s gangs are next on the list.