Port-au-Prince, Haiti – November 11, 2026: A coordinated regional anti-gang operation unfolded late Tuesday, November 10, when Salvadoran military helicopters fired Hydra 70 rockets targeting both the private residence and operational headquarters of Wilson Joseph, the notorious gang kingpin known locally as “Lanmò San Jou” who leads Haiti’s violent 400 Mawozo criminal syndicate. The targeted sites sustained severe, widespread structural damage following repeated aerial strikes, with on-the-ground sources confirming that follow-up aerial security operations remained active through the early hours of Wednesday morning. Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, publicly identified in official statements by his alias Fils-Aimé, took to social media platform X to formally applaud the unprecedented cross-border support from Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s administration. In his public post, the prime minister emphasized that joint efforts between Haiti’s National Police (PNH), the Haitian Armed Forces, the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (FRG), and international partner contingents are steadily expanding state control over long gang-occupied territories and restoring legitimate government authority across vulnerable communities. He specifically hailed Bukele’s unwavering commitment to Haiti’s anti-gang campaign, stating that the shared resolve of Haitian, Salvadoran, and joint task force forces represents a unified front that will offer no safe haven for violent criminal networks across the nation. For his part, President Bukele shared a public update in Haitian Creole on his official Facebook profile, alongside accompanying video footage of the helicopter rocket launches, to confirm that the operation fulfilled a prior public promise to target the 400 Mawozo gang’s core infrastructure. A recent field assessment by the Associated Press has verified that the Salvadoran military contingent deployed to Haiti for the anti-gang mission has expanded to at least 2,500 total personnel, with 125 of those troops embedded directly within the multinational Gang Suppression Force command structure. Local HaitiLibre news outlets, which first broke footage of the strike operations, note that the expanded Salvadoran deployment marks one of the largest single-nation contributions to the ongoing multinational security mission in Haiti since the anti-gang intervention launched earlier this year.
FLASH : Helicopters from El Salvador fire rockets at the residence and headquarters of «Lanmò San Jou» (video)
