El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Announces Military Operation In Haiti
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has let Haiti gangs know he’s not playing any games.
On Wednesday, Bukele revealed he launched a military operation in Haiti after four El Salvadoran aviation technicians were kidnapped in the country.
Bukele in a post on X warned Haiti gang leaders stating, “I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today’s attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive.”
He added, “And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.”
AP News reported further details on the conflict in Haiti:
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti, warning of a more forceful response if they are not released alive and unharmed.
The announcement comes three days after gangs in Haiti opened fire on an armored vehicle over the weekend, marking the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operations in the violence-wracked Caribbean country. After fleeing the burning vehicle in the Santo area of Croix-des-Bouquets, Port-au-Prince, the four men went missing.
Addressing Haitian gang leaders, Bukele demanded that they return the Salvadorans “alive, unharmed” and warned that, if they do so, “everything will go back to the way it was before the kidnapping.” If not, the Salvadoran leader — who drew international attention for his contentious war on his own country’s gangs — said it would result in a more powerful operation