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About 2,500 military personnel from El Salvador have been sent to Haiti to fight the gangs that dominate areas of Port-au-Prince. The operation is commanded by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and has the support of the Haitian government, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Violence by armed groups has left thousands dead in the country in recent years. It is this scenario that led the Haitian government to accept the presence of a foreign force led by Bukele, known for his hardline approach to gangs in El Salvador.
The deployment marks a large-scale armed intervention in the region under the model associated with the Salvadoran president. For Haiti, the expectation is a reduction in the power of the groups that control neighborhoods in the capital. For Caribbean and Latin American neighbors, the outcome of the operation could weigh on regional security and migration flows, since Haiti’s instability often pushes part of its population out of the country.
The Haitian government, which requested and supports the mission, has not yet been accompanied in the reports by details on how long the troops will remain or on the rules governing the force’s conduct on Haitian territory.
Reporting from Le Figaro (p. 8, Porto Príncipe/Haiti [jornal]).
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