Reuters: Around 1,000 Salvadoran Soldiers Sent to Haiti as Four Remain Missing

A Haitian security official told Reuters on October 27 that about 1,000 Salvadoran soldiers have been sent to Haiti, well above the roughly 200 special forces reported earlier (AP reported 100). The four Salvadoran aviation technicians missing since the October 18 Croix-des-Bouquets ambush remain unaccounted for; no gang has claimed responsibility and 400 Mawozo leader Wilson Joseph denied holding them. US Southern Command supplied C-130 transport jets. The Gang Suppression Force stands at about 2,000 troops, roughly a third of its planned size.