Bukele says Salvadoran troops destroyed gang HQ in Haiti

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President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday that Salvadoran troops deployed to Haiti had destroyed the headquarters of one of the Caribbean nation's most powerful gangs. Bukele has…

President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday that Salvadoran troops deployed to Haiti had destroyed the headquarters of one of the Caribbean nation's most powerful gangs.

Bukele has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti since late October, after four Salvadoran troops went missing in the country.

"We destroyed the house of (gang leader) Lanmo San Jou and the 400 Mawozo gang's headquarters," he wrote on X in the Haitian Creole language.

The right-wing leader posted video of at least three helicopters circling overhead and firing on the two-story house in Croix-des-Bouquets, near the capital Port-au-Prince. People are seen fleeing the area.

The Miami Herald newspaper reported that the attack took place on Sunday and was conducted by a Haitian police task force backed by Salvadoran troops.

The gang leader, whose real name is Wilson Joseph, was not in the house at the time of the attack, pro-government media in El Salvador reported.

The attack came after a user on X posted a photograph on November 5 of what the user said was the gang headquarters and asked Bukele to destroy it.

Bukele answered at the time: "where is this house? Give us the exact address and we will destroy it."

"We fulfilled our promise," Bukele wrote Tuesday. He is known for iron-fisted rule and little tolerance of dissent in El Salvador and likes to call himself the world's "coolest dictator."

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