# Haiti: UN Gang Suppression Mission and Separate Salvadoran Operation

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119555001689289134
- Source account: [@EricLDaugh](https://x.com/EricLDaugh)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation) 'Cause they're providing their own airlift.

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=1) So there's two things going on in Haiti.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=3) We have the gang suppression force, which is the UN mission, and they have forces, I think about 100 soldiers that are a part of that, and that's what we've been engaged in supporting.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=12) We don't have troops there, but we've been engaged.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=13) And then there's a separate mission which they've taken on bilaterally in agreement with the Haitian officials, um, to, uh, to, to go after the, the gangs that, that kidnapped their, uh, their, their forces that were there, their soldiers that were there.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=26) So that's a separate mission. He, he called the president and made him aware of what he was doing, and the president understood why he was doing it, but we're not necessarily, we're not actively involved in that effort.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=35) Does it potentially undermine the gang suppression force that you have- No, as long- ... Salvadorians there, you have the- Yeah ... private security contractors.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=42) There's a lot of people on the ground working.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=44) Yeah. No, as long as the chain of command is, is well established, who's working for who, and I think they'll have to, and we've raised this point, not that it's a criticism, just as an observation, we have to make clear,

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=54) we have to make sure that there's deconfliction going on.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=58) You, what you can't have is gang, you know, gang suppression force running into Salvadorian soldiers and shooting at each other because they think the other side are gang members.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=66) So that's why you'll need a deconfliction mechanism.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=68) You'll need a lot of strong coordination 'cause they're operating alongside one another.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=71) Um, so we've pointed that out and are, and...

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=74) But, uh, but I don't think it necessarily has to be a conflict. Okay?

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=79) Don't piss in the pool.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pdvzLcgQx4p6/en/haiti-un-gang-suppression-mission-and-separate-salvadoran-operation?t=83) We're now into the fifth month, uh- Period, right ... period before the, the five-