A Central American strongman who jailed his way to a "gang-free" El Salvador has now sent his special forces into Port-au-Prince's badlands, with a warning the gangs have never heard before — and Jamaican troops are in the same theatre.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 25, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown | Nayib Bukele has brought his war to Haiti. A week after four Salvadoran soldiers disappeared in a hail of gunfire and explosives on the eastern edge of Port-au-Prince, El Salvador has poured as many as 200 special forces troops into the country, and its president has told Haiti's gangs, in so many words, that they are next.