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El alcalde de Dajabón, Santiago Riverón, durante unas declaraciones, con la bandera de República Dominicana al fondo
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Riverón warns Bukele of the risk of sending troops to Haiti

The mayor of Dajabón, Santiago Riverón, warned Nayib Bukele that sending more Salvadoran soldiers to Haiti would not guarantee success against the gangs and…

--- The context --- The mayor of Dajabón, Santiago Riverón, warned El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, about the dangers Salvadoran soldiers would face if they were sent to fight gangs in Haiti. Dajabón is a Dominican border town, and its mayor spoke from that closeness to the Haitian crisis. --- The facts --- The statements come amid the search for four Salvadoran soldiers whose alleged kidnapping in Haiti has caused concern. Bukele demanded that the four soldiers be handed over safe and sound, amid uncertainty about their situation. Riverón said that conditions in Haitian territory represent a complex scenario for any military operation and argued that armed groups could cause numerous casualties among foreign troops. --- The positions --- The mayor stated that sending a larger number of Salvadoran soldiers to Haiti would not guarantee the success of an operation against the gangs. In his words, Bukele could send half of El Salvador's army and they would be killed in Haiti, an assessment by the border official that is not a verified military evaluation. The Haitian government said it considers the release of the soldiers a priority and that it maintains security efforts aimed at clarifying their situation, with high-level meetings to evaluate the operations. --- What remains unknown --- For the moment, no new Salvadoran military operation in response to this incident has been officially confirmed. The outcome of the search for the four soldiers and their exact situation are also unknown. --- Unanswered questions --- Where are the four Salvadoran soldiers and what is their situation? Will El Salvador respond with a new military operation in Haiti? How much weight will the warning of a border mayor who knows the terrain carry in that decision? --- EPM analysis --- Riverón's warning focuses on the human cost of any intervention: soldiers sent into a territory they do not know, facing armed groups that operate in it. His insistence that the number of troops does not guarantee success shifts the discussion from troop counts to the risk assumed by the people deployed. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the Dajabón mayor's warning should be read as a call for prudence rather than a challenge. Santiago Riverón speaks from the border and stresses the essential point: behind every troop figure there are soldiers whose lives would be exposed in a complex territory, facing gangs that know it. That sending more soldiers does not guarantee success forces any step to be measured by its human cost and not only by its symbolic force. First, the safe release of the four soldiers; then, any decision taken with the terrain, and not just the map, on the table.
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