El Salvador’s President Nayyib Bukele, who knows a thing or two about wiping out criminal gangs, has a message for Haiti’s, which a few days ago took four Salvadoran nationals hostage in that country:
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Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti: Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè. Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan. Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal. Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan. Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou. Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa. Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan. Desizyon an nan men nou.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) October 21, 2026
He made sure that message went out in Haitian Kreyol, the language of that country.
Grok Translate:
To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti:
Our kidnapped men are not combatants. They are aviation technicians who are part of our mission in Haiti, within the framework of an international mission. Our mission consists only of pilots and technical personnel, whose primary job is to carry out medical evacuations and save lives, not to wage war.
However, they were kidnapped in a cowardly manner while returning after buying food at a market in the area.
That is why, today, we have launched a military operation to rescue them.
We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm.
However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today’s attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive.
And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.
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We still have time to avoid this.
Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping.
The decision is in your hands.
But more important, he made sure it went out in language that criminals can understand — that of swift and certain crushing force, warning them they’d be grease spots in the jungle if they don’t drop the crime act immediately on Salvador’s nationals who are pulling charity duty in their country, and let those four Salvadoran technicians go.
As he wrote it, he was already reportedly dispatching 80 to 100 Salvadoran special forces, accompanied by El Salvador’s defense minister, to that wretched half-island, leaving not doubt for the gangs to know he means business.
🇸🇻⚠️🇭🇹 Entre 80 y 100 operadores de fuerzas especiales de El Salvador (CEAT) y su ministro de Defensa ya estarían en Haití para sumarse a la búsqueda y rescate de los cuatro aerotécnicos salvadoreños secuestrados por pandillas @WilliamSorianoH @nayibbukele @ECastroES @AsambleaSV
— Armapedia (@Armapedia) October 22, 2026
And assuming the operation succeeds, they’ll get the Salvadoran nationals back, and leave the gangsters in a smoldering pit of hot ashes.
Or taken to some place like this:
Esta madrugada, trasladamos a más de 2,000 pandilleros desde los penales de Izalco, Ciudad Barrios y San Vicente, hacia el CECOT. Ahí pagarán por los crímenes cometidos contra nuestro pueblo; incomunicados con el exterior, sin posibilidad de salir, ni de ordenar crímenes desde la cárcel 🇸🇻
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) June 11, 2024
This is noteworthy, as it suggests that since Bukele transformed his country into the Singapore of the Americas — small but mighty, and very well known for its law and order — he’s taking his show on the road, making El Salvador not just a new crime-free Singapore, but a new Israel, a country that can project power abroad and which will look out for its own nationals, not letting a ragtag band of criminals in Haiti do what they like with people who were obviously pulling punishment duty to help a hopeless place a place like Haiti.
El Salvador has accomplished big things already and now it wants to accomplish bigger ones. I hope this mission succeeds like an Israeli or U.S. Special Forces such operation would, they belong in our league. And for El Salvador, gangs will never think to mess with them again.
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What luck that this impressive country is an ally.
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