Haiti: El Salvador deploys 2,000 troops after 4 nationals are kidnapped

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele deployed 2,000 troops to Haiti this week after four Salvadoran aviation technicians serving with an international anti-gang force were kidnapped. Haitian authorities said the men were abducted following an attack; no group has claimed responsibility. Bukele said the mission’s sole aim was to bring the nationals home and insisted it was neither an invasion nor a threat to Haitians, while Haiti’s government described it as strengthened security cooperation backed by the UN. Gang leaders have threatened to retaliate, as the UN reports more than 5,700 people killed or injured in Haiti between January and mid-September.