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Salvadoran general: gangs control over 90% of Port-au-Prince, he said

In EPM's view, the weight of these remarks lies in who makes them: a Salvadoran general whose country keeps personnel deployed in Haiti.

--- The context --- Haiti is going through deep instability, with weakened institutions, according to Salvadoran brigadier general José Edgar Campos Rivas in a radio interview. In his judgment, that deterioration makes restoring order harder and makes the country a very complex setting for any eventual armed intervention. --- The facts --- According to the general, criminal gangs control more than 90% of Port-au-Prince. He maintained that those groups have extended their presence in the capital and widened their control over different areas, especially in the Haitian capital. The interview took place amid the disappearance of four aeronautical technicians who were part of a Salvadoran contingent deployed in Haiti, the context for the general's analysis of security in the Caribbean country. --- The positions --- Campos Rivas maintained that the gangs have allied and organized into federations, which, in his judgment, has allowed them to expand their territorial control. He also stated that Haiti has entered great instability and that, in his assessment, the country lacks sufficient institutional strength to restore order. The general warned that any operation to confront those groups would require planning, international coordination and logistical resources, given the security conditions he described on the ground. --- What remains unknown --- The interview does not detail which areas would fall outside the control attributed to the gangs, nor what data supports the proportion cited for the capital. It also includes no official Haitian response to those claims. --- Unanswered questions --- What concrete data supports the proportion of territorial control the general asserted? Will Haitian authorities respond to that assessment of their capital? What is known about the four missing aeronautical technicians and about the situation of the Salvadoran contingent deployed in Haiti? --- EPM analysis --- The general's assessment combines three elements he himself connected: the territorial dominance he attributes to the gangs, the institutional weakness he describes and the strategic value of Haitian territory. As he explained, Haiti's geographic position, between Cuba and the rest of the region, facilitates routes used for drug and arms trafficking toward the United States and Europe, which, in his judgment, deepens the obstacles for any operation. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the weight of these remarks lies in who makes them: a Salvadoran general whose country keeps personnel deployed in Haiti. That weight also demands caution: the 90% figure is his claim, not a fact independently verified in this interview, and treating it as a settled diagnosis would be a mistake. The sound approach is to read it as an attributed warning, test it against Haitian and international voices, and closely follow the search for the missing technicians and any announced operation.
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