Bogotá mugger robbed by assailant who'd been thieving "minutes before"

A thief was mugged in Bogotá after his own failed attempt to rob a motorcycle, minutes after his assailant had robbed a shop and narrowly escaped capture, El Tiempo reported on 11 November. Police cameras recorded the incidents in the district of Engativá in north-western Bogotá. Initially the first thief sought to rob a motorcycle but was shot in the back by its owner who was a security guard. When he fell to the ground, another man approached and robbed him of his belongings before escaping. The second rascal was identified as having robbed a local business "minutes before" with an accomplice whom he ditched as they failed to escape on a motorbike. The accomplice was caught and almost lynched by locals who set the bike on fire, though police arrived to break up the mêlée. Local businesses insisted on more police presence in a district where thefts and assaults were happening "at all hours of the day," the daily stated. 

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.