The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukeleassured that can fix the serious crisis of violence that Haiti is suffering if it has the approval of the local authorities and the UN, in addition to having all expenses paid.
«We can fix it. But we will need a resolution from the UN Security Council, 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, in reaction to a message from a user.
In January 2023, El Salvador had committed to opening a cooperation office in that country 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 is ready to send an assistance mission to Haiti after an exchange of notes between their heads of state.
Ulloa indicated that “in an exchange of notes between President Nayib Bukele and Prime Minister Ariel Henry, an agreement was reached to establish an office of El Salvador in the Republic of Haiti.”
Gang war
“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 against 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 deaths in unclarified prisons.
The extraordinary measure came into effect in El Salvador after an escalation of murders in March 2022, attributed to gangs and which Investigations by local media indicate it occurred due to the breakdown of an agreement between the Government and the gangs.
The United States Government itself has sanctioned at least two senior officials of the Bukele Administration for allegedly organizing and facilitating negotiations with gangs.
Violence
Violence in Port-au-Prince has increased significantly since on February 28 it became known that Ariel Henry had committed to holding elections in Haiti before the end of August 2025, a very distant date if one takes into account that the prime minister had to conclude his mandate on February 7according to a 2022 agreement.
In the midst of this escalation of violence, last weekend criminal gangs entered the capital’s two main prisons, allowing more than 3,000 prisoners to escape.
Henry, currently in Puerto Rico and the country’s highest authority after the assassination in 2021 of President Jovenel Moise, is now the subject of pressure inside and outside Haiti to favor a transition that helps stop the acute crisis and extreme violence in the nation. islander EFE
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