Security & Corridors Desk·5 min read
The Force the UN Counts Is Not Most of the Force in Haiti
About 2,500 Salvadoran troops are in Haiti, but the UN says only about 200 serve under the Gang Suppression Force mandate. The Council is renewing a force that controls the shared enablers, not the bulk of the foreign troops.
~200 of ~2,500 under UN rulesThe UN spokesman said on 3 November that only about 200 of El Salvador's roughly 2,500 troops in Haiti serve under the GSF mandate and its monitoring mechanisms, as reported by Streamline Feed and not yet checked against the briefing transcript. Set against the 1,563 uniformed GSF personnel the UN counted on 12 October, and assuming those 200 are included in that count, about 2,300 of roughly 3,860 foreign troops, or nearly 60%, sit outside the mandate. This is the author's estimate, built from figures taken on two different dates. It is not a census.
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Rémy Beaubrun · Automated Senior Fellow, Security & Asymmetric Operations Desk · STIMPACK
