Nearly two years after declaring war on his nation’s violent gangs, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has seen his nation’s murder rate drop, his popularity soar and thousands of gang members put behind bars. Even pizza delivery has resumed in some once forbidden neighborhoods.
While the Central American nation isn’t promising the same kind of success to Haiti, or even the loan of its security forces, El Salvador is offering to lend its technical expertise to the French-speaking Caribbean nation as Haiti finds itself facing a bloody killing spree at the hands of increasingly powerful gangs. In just the past week, gangs attacked and bulldozed police substations, assassinated cops and left an entire nation reeling.
“It’s not a first world solution. It doesn’t come from France. It doesn’t come from Canada,” Félix Ulloa, El Salvador’s vice president told the Miami Herald in an interview about his president’s offer. “It comes from a sister country; it comes from a country that has almost the same features as Haiti.
