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Amnesty wants the deployment agreement made public.", "prose": "Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Salvadoran troops in Haiti destroyed a major gang headquarters.[^1] He announced the attack on the X social platform.[^2]\n\nThe headquarters belonged to the 400 Mawozo gang, in Croix-des-Bouquets.[^3] The attack took place on Sunday.[^4] The troops were backing a Haitian police operation.[^5]\n\n## The toll\n\nTwenty people died in the attack, according to The Miami Herald.[^6] That newspaper is the only source for the figure in these reports. Bukele's own announcement gave no count.\n\n## The man who was not there\n\nThe operation targeted property linked to the gang's leader, Wilson Joseph.[^7] Joseph was not present during the attack.[^8]\n\n## How El Salvador came to be fighting in Haiti\n\nEl Salvador has deployed more than 2,000 troops to Haiti since late October.[^9] The deployment followed the disappearance of four Salvadoran personnel on 18 October.[^10]\n\nMost of those troops are not part of the Gang Suppression Force backed by the United Nations.[^11] They are operating in Haiti under an arrangement between two governments, whose terms have not been published.\n\n## The objection\n\nAmnesty International called for the agreement behind the deployment to be made public.[^12] It urged that the operations comply with international human rights law.[^13]\n\n## Haiti's government\n\nHaiti's prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, thanked the Salvadoran troops for their assistance.[^14] He will visit El Salvador next 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