Two years and nine months. That's how long the gangs held Haiti's national stadium, in the middle of the capital.
Thursday they lost it. Haitian police and Salvadoran special forces went in and took it back, and by evening Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president and a Trump ally, had posted the video: armored trucks on the pitch and a four-legged robot carrying a gun.
His words under it: "During the operation, we discovered several human skulls inside the stadium."
The United Nations tried this first. Kenya promised a thousand police in 2024 and sent fewer than eight hundred. Washington put up most of the roughly four hundred million dollars that mission ever raised. The last Kenyan officers flew home April 27 with the gangs holding more of the city than when they landed. I read how the Haitian press summed up that mission on its way out. One word. FAILURE.
Bukele's reason is personal. Four of his aviation technicians, serving with the UN-backed force, vanished in a gang ambush on October 18. The first Salvadoran special forces landed four days later. Three weeks after that, more than two thousand of his soldiers are in Haiti and the stadium is their base.
He called President Trump on October 27 to ask whether Washington would stand behind him. The answer, six words: "Do what you have to do." El Salvador is paying ninety percent of the bill, by Bukele's own count. America's part was the airlift.
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