The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, assured that he can fix the serious crisis of violence that Haiti is suffering if he has the approval of local authorities and the UN, and insisted that it is possible to “annihilate” the Haitian gangs, a victory which he already achieved in El Salvador.
“We can fix it. But We will need a UN Security Council resolution, the consent of the host country and that all the expenses of the mission are covered,” Bukele published in English on his X account, around midnight on Saturday, March 9, in reaction to a user’s message.
We can fix it.
But we’ll need a UNSC resolution, the consent of the host country, and all the mission expenses to be covered. https://t.co/GPqMVo7MTN
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 10, 2024
An hour later, the Salvadoran president, known for his “war once morest gangs” with which he managed to transform his country from being one of the most dangerous in the world to the safest in Latin America, in his words, returned to the same network social to delve deeper into the problems of Haiti.
Bukele reacted to a video in which the member of a gang in Haiti was supposedly seen eating human remains, in undated images that might be several months old, while it is explicitly shown how he removes the charred leg of a woman from a street bonfire. victim and tears off pieces of flesh.
“We saw similar images in El Salvador a few years ago. Gangs bathing with the skulls of their victims,” Bukele explained.
Given this situation, he added, “all the ‘experts’ said that they (the gangs) might not be defeated, because they were an ‘intrinsic part'” of Salvadoran society.
“They were wrong. We annihilated them. The same must be done in Haiti,” said the Salvadoran president.
We saw similar images in El Salvador a few years ago. Gangs bathing with the skulls of their victims.
All the “experts” said they mightn’t be defeated, because they were an “intrinsic part of our society”.
They were wrong.
We obliterated them.
The same must be done in Haiti. https://t.co/RkrBfZuGGM
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 11, 2024
Proposals from El Salvador on Haiti
This is not the first proposal from El Salvador on Haiti. In January 2023, the Central American country had already committed to opening a cooperation office in the island nation to “reduce the high crime rates,” as reported by the Vice Presidency at the time.
Months later, in March, the vice president, Félix Ulloa, stated at the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit that his country was ready to send an assistance mission to Haiti following an exchange of notes between Bukele and the Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry.
“It is time to take action, there have been many speeches, many agreements, many resolutions on the Haitian case, but we must go on the ground and El Salvador is ready to send a mission immediately the diplomatic agreements are completed,” added the Salvadoran vice president.
Bukele and his officials affirm that El Salvador has become the safest country in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the implementation of an emergency regime focused on the “war once morest gangs,” which suspends constitutional rights and has left more than 78,100 arrests.
The security policy of mass detentions has been criticized by local and international human rights organizations, which have received complaints of abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture and unexplained deaths in prisons.
Violence in Port-au-Prince has increased significantly since it became known on February 28 that Henry had committed to holding elections in Haiti before the end of August 2025, a very distant date considering that the prime minister had to conclude his term. mandate on February 7, according to a 2022 agreement.
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