The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said on Sunday that his country can solve the serious problem of insecurity created in Haiti by armed gangs, and offered his help.
“We can solve things. But we’ll need a UN Security Council resolution, Haiti’s consent and all the mission’s costs to be covered,” Bukele, who has successfully defeated the gangs in his country, said on X.
The presidential press office later said that Bukele was “referring to the political and social situation in Haiti”, according to AFP.
No details were released, however, on how El Salvador would go about “resolving” the crisis in the poorest country in the Americas, where gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince as well as the roads leading to the rest of the territory.
El Salvador’s young head of state, 42-year-old Nayib Bukele, is widely acclaimed for his anti-crime efforts beyond the country’s borders, even though human rights organizations regularly denounce massive arbitrary detentions.