🇺🇸 US officials challenge Trump's Salvadoran ally, exposing White House rift over Haiti Some Trump administration officials are opposing El Salvador's military intervention in Haiti, despite the US president's backing, Axios reports. The dispute centers on Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's deployment of 2,000-2,500 heavily armed troops to Haiti in late October, following the October 18 kidnapping of four Salvadoran Air Force aviation technicians by criminal gangs near Port-au-Prince. US Chargé d'Affaires in Haiti David Howell reportedly told Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé that El Salvador's intervention in the country was not coordinated with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (GSF). He warned it could cause casualties among GSF troops and civilians, while "their small-arms fire struck the US embassy, nearly hitting US personnel." El Salvador has officially rejected the allegations, while the nation's President Nayib Bukele cited Trump as giving him the greenlight to "do what we have to do" to stabilize Haiti. 👉 El Salvador's Haiti mission Bukele's troops have joined an already crowded security landscape, where Haitian police and military forces, the UN-backed GSF and private contractors working for Erik Prince's Vectus Global are fighting criminal gangs with limited success. On November 8, Haitian police and Salvadoran troops raided a home belonging to Wilson Joseph, the leader of 400 Mawozo, one of Haiti's most powerful gangs, but failed to capture or kill him, according to the Associated Press. Before the operation, Bukele asked on X for information about the gang leader's whereabouts and was provided with what appeared to be his coordinates. 👉 Although reports indicate that Salvadoran troops are operating under an agreement signed by Haiti and El Salvador, the terms of the agreement remain undisclosed, raising concerns over the legality of Bukele's campaign. Bukele, whose government is known for mass incarcerations in El Salvador, has drawn concern from human rights groups, which say the objectives of his operation in Haiti remain unclear and warn that it could fuel further bloodshed and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime