Sometimes, it is simply possible to act and achieve the necessary and desired results. This has been the hallmark of the current phase of planetary geopolitical transition, regardless of the judgment we may make of each specific "bold" decision. Russia simply launched the special military operation, Iran simply closed the Strait of Hormuz, the US simply kidnapped Nicolás Maduro. And Bukele simply landed troops in Haiti and began eliminating the criminals who were terrorizing the Caribbean country.
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This is how it goes in periods when geopolitical actors realize that the "rules-based international order" no longer works, or that it is a rigged card game that exists to benefit certain specific countries at the expense of all others. It is in such times that world leaders, some justifiably, others not so much, perhaps recall that famous phrase uttered by Pompey during a campaign in Sicily: "Stop quoting laws to us. We carry swords."
In the case of the Salvadoran invasion of Haiti, it all began with the kidnapping, by gangs, of 4 Salvadoran soldiers who were part of the Gang Suppression Force, which since 2025 has been operating with a UN mandate on the territory of the Caribbean nation. After Salvadoran demands for the return of the kidnapped soldiers, Nayib Bukele—currently the most popular president in the world, with 91% approval—decided to simply send 2,500 soldiers to rescue the kidnapped Salvadorans, while also promising to definitively liquidate the Haitian gangs.
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Bukele sent 2,500 troops to Haiti and crushed gangs in 10 days. If it was that easy, what did UN and NGOs do with $1 billion? Haiti’s chaos is a project.
This is how it goes in periods when geopolitical actors realize that the "rules-based international order" no longer works, or that it is a rigged card game that exists to benefit certain specific countries at the expense of all others. It is in such times that world leaders, some justifiably, others not so much, perhaps recall that famous phrase uttered by Pompey during a campaign in Sicily: "Stop quoting laws to us. We carry swords."
In the case of the Salvadoran invasion of Haiti, it all began with the kidnapping, by gangs, of 4 Salvadoran soldiers who were part of the Gang Suppression Force, which since 2025 has been operating with a UN mandate on the territory of the Caribbean nation. After Salvadoran demands for the return of the kidnapped soldiers, Nayib Bukele—currently the most popular president in the world, with 91% approval—decided to simply send 2,500 soldiers to rescue the kidnapped Salvadorans, while also promising to definitively liquidate the Haitian gangs.
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» Stop quoting laws to us. We carry swords. «
It is in this context that the Salvadoran intervention takes place. In just 10 days after the start of the fighting, the Salvadoran operation had already eliminated several dozen criminals, among them one of the leaders, Mathias Saintil. The operation is supported and approved by the acting prime minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé (who declared that the Salvadoran mission is enabling the nearly non-existent Haitian State to assume effective control over the territory), as well as by a significant portion of the Haitian population, desperate over the terror imposed on the population by the criminals.
gangs that terrorize and destabilize the country, served as Israel's honorary consul in Haiti for over two decades.
Immediately, the efficiency of the Salvadoran mission soon led to questions. If it was so easy to eliminate the gangs and pacify the territory, what were the UN troops doing in Haiti all this time? What had the NGOs been doing? And where did all the money sent to Haiti over decades end up? Indeed, we are talking about years of mission and approximately 1 billion dollars that ended up in Haiti, channeled through the UN and NGOs, and absolutely none of it shows any result.
Many people, inside and outside Haiti, wonder whether the permanent chaos in the Caribbean country is a project, rather than simply a historical accident or the fruit of natural social tensions. Recent events point in that direction. Shortly after one of the main leaders of the Haitian gangs, Wilson Joseph, publicly asked the UN to mediate a peace negotiation between El Salvador and the gangs themselves, it was as if a reaction had been coordinated. NGOs, such as the highly suspect Amnesty International, criticized El Salvador's action and demanded "respect for human rights." Simultaneously, Marco Rubio and the US State Department publicly asked Bukele as well to back away from the operation and avoid a conflict with the gangs. It is peculiar to see the international NGO system linked to the UN and a unipolarist neocon like Marco Rubio acting together, such that perhaps we are facing one of those threads that could lead us to the "why" of Haiti's permanent crisis.
The role of the Caribbean in international drug trafficking has been notorious for decades, as has the CIA's interest in the continuation of that route, usually instrumentalized for even more dubious purposes. Today, drug trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business in which powerful bankers and financiers have invested interests, as in the case of the Israeli-Haitian Gilberto Bigio. The US State Department's interest in Haiti, naturally, is not recent. Let us recall, for example, that at the time of the Obama administration, the State Department managed the receipt of international humanitarian aid by selecting the NGOs that would be the intermediaries for the money and giving, according to Wikileaks, preferential treatment to NGO operators who were "friends of Bill Clinton." During that period, of all the billions of dollars raised for Haiti, only 10% ended up directly in the hands of the government, with all the rest ending up in the hands of intermediaries, such as a network of hundreds of NGOs.
The mention of Bill Clinton is relevant, incidentally, since he was involved in a scandal involving international trafficking of Haitian children, as he traveled to Haiti personally to try to secure the release of American child traffickers who had been arrested in 2010. Perhaps many people do not want Bukele to fix or at least somewhat improve things in Haiti. A Haiti in permanent chaos is the perfect terrain for NGOs to continue moving millions without having to present any results. As well as ensuring that those parasitic elements who take advantage of weakness and misery continue to exploit and abuse the innocent children of Haiti.
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Raphael Machado is a Brazilian lawyer, publisher, writer and geopolitical analyst specializing in Latin American affairs and multipolarity. A proponent of Alexander Dugin's Fourth Political Theory, he founded the Brazilian political organization Nova Resistência in 2015.