The foreign ministry of El Salvador said on Wednesday that over 2,000 troops will be dispatched to Haiti to support ongoing U.N. anti-gang operations and rescue four missing Salvadoran aircraft technicians.
\n\nThe four technicians were reported missing on October 18 after their vehicle was ambushed near a gang stronghold. The soldiers apparently escaped from their armored vehicle after it was damaged by explosives, but have not been heard from since.
\n\nHaiti has been overrun by heavily armed gangs ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021. The area where the Salvadoran technicians disappeared had been the scene of a pitched battle between Haitian police, private security contractors, and gang members for several days.
\n\nSeveral burned bodies were recovered Saturday, but they could not easily be identified. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said they were not the bodies of his missing men and sent several hundred special forces troops to Haiti to attempt a rescue.
\n\nBukele warned the Haitian gangs there would be severe repercussions if they harmed the missing technicians or interfered with the mission to rescue them.
\n\n“I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today’s attack is nothing compared to what is…
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