Salvadoran military intervention in Haiti

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Since 21 October 2026, El Salvador has been conducting a military intervention in Haiti following a gang ambush on 18 October that resulted in four Salvadoran aviation technicians of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) being kidnapped. According to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, the intervention's primary objective is to rescue the four technicians, while threatening to "finish" the Haitian gangs if the technicians are not rescued alive. A gang conflict has engulfed Haiti since 2020 with gangs taking control of much of the country, including most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. In 2023, the United Nations (UN) established the Multinational Security Support Mission (later reorganized as the GSF) to help the Haitian government combat gangs. El Salvador began supporting the GSF in January 2025 in non-combat roles and had at least 124 personnel in Haiti by October 2026. After Haitian gangs attacked and kidnapped the four Salvadoran technicians, Bukele announced the beginning of a military...

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