Salvadoran forces strike Haitian gang building

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele posted pictures online on 10 November of an ongoing operation against Haitian gangs thought to be holding four Salvadoran technicians in or around the capital Port-au-Prince. His post showed Salvadoran helicopters bombing the headquarters of the 400 Mawozo gang, one of the country's most violent, in Croix-des-Bouquets east of Port-au-Prince, the Salvadoran paper El Mundo reported. Days before, he had asked a Haitian national online for the building's "exact address... and we'll destroy it," the daily wrote. El Salvador recently sent hundreds of troops to Haiti in coordination with its government and the UN-mandated Gang Suppression Force, to rescue the technicians but Bukele has stressed he was prepared to destroy Haiti's "satanic" gangs in the process. The technicians had yet to be found. Haiti's prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, separately thanked El Salvador for its help and vowed the collaboration, which enjoyed tacit support from the United States, would continue. Agencies separately reported on 6 November on a Haitian drone strike killing the head of another gang in Cité-Soleil, a suburb of the capital. This was said to be the first time a gangster was killed with a drone. The target was named as Mathias Sainthill, heading a violent gang with 100 members active in that sector, El Mundo reported, citing EFE.