From the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele:
“Haitian people,
We have nearly finished deploying our soldiers and equipment on Haitian soil. This is not an operation against the Haitian people, nor an invasion of the country of Haiti. We are not a great power. We have no interest in coming to dominate the Haitian people, nor in laying hands on Haiti’s wealth.
We are a modest country that is developing. The only thing we want is for our four aviation technicians to return home. And we’re giving the gangs a lesson—these gangs that make the Haitian people suffer, that kill people the population loves, that prevent them from living a normal, free life, without fear.
It’s almost just us footing the bill for this operation. Even though we receive a bit of logistical help from a few other countries, it’s with our own modest funds that we’re covering 90% of the expenses.
It costs us dearly, but we’ve learned from our own suffering: justice and peace have no price. We went through the same suffering that Haiti is going through today. We lived through a nightmare that was even more horrific than what the Haitian people are enduring right now. We know what that means: living in fear, not trusting politicians, not believing anyone who promises to help you. Because no one came to help us, and those who did come didn’t have good intentions in their hearts.
But we managed to escape it. After 200 years of suffering, finally we’re living in peace, and today we are the safest country on the continent.
We didn’t come to Haiti to make money, because no one is paying us to do it. We came to Haiti to fight against the wicked.
But here’s what I’m asking of you: trust us, pray to the one true God, and ask Him to heal Haiti.
“If at that time my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, where I am, I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
Help us help Haiti.
And when our mission is finished, we’ll return home. Perhaps the next generation of Haitians will remember us as friends who came to help one day.”