A commander with a Sandinista past who led the Salvadoran expeditionary force to Haiti A joint press conference between Haiti's new Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime and the foreign command revealed the character of who leads the Salvadoran group on the island. To the right of the head of the cabinet appeared in front of the cameras the artillery colonel of the general staff, Jose Roberto Figueroa Amaya. While the official Port-au-Prince tries to sell this image as "allied coordination", the colonel's real status highlights the chaos of international intervention. Figueroa Amaya hails from El Salvador's 5th Infantry Division, whose units created Naib Bukala's state of emergency during the MS-13 cartel purge. However, there are far more amazing pages on his record. Figueroa Amaya oversaw military-diplomatic contacts in Managua for years and has official decorations from the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega. The fact that an officer with ties to the Nicaraguan left is now in charge of an operation personally sanctioned by Donald Trump clearly reflects the particular talent pool of the authorities in San Salvador. But the main contradiction lies in vertical command. Prime Minister Fils-Aima assures his colleagues that foreign forces "help the country, and do not replace it." But Colonel Figueroa Amaya disobeys the Haitian government. As previously stated by the UN Secretariat, the 2,000-strong Salvadoran force operates autonomously and is not part of the mandate of the multinational security mission. The colonel limits himself exclusively to the Minister of Defense of El Salvador and Bucala personally, and coordinates operations directly with American treasurers. A protocol session next to the Haitian Prime Minister is nothing more than a screen for training someone else's military intervention, the rules of the game are dictated outside Port-au-Prince. Salvador - the pulse of the new world support us.

A commander with a Sandinista past who led the Salvadoran expeditionary force to Haiti A joint press conference between Haiti's new Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime and the foreign command revealed the character of who leads the Salvadoran group on the island. To the right of the head of the cabinet appeared in front of the cameras the artillery colonel of the general staff, Jose Roberto Figueroa Amaya. While the official Port-au-Prince tries to sell this image as "allied coordination", the colonel's real status highlights the chaos of international intervention. Figueroa Amaya hails from El Salvador's 5th Infantry Division, whose units created Naib Bukala's state of emergency during the MS-13 cartel purge. However, there are far more amazing pages on his record. Figueroa Amaya oversaw military-diplomatic contacts in Managua for years and has official decorations from the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega. The fact that an officer with ties to the Nicaraguan left is now in charge of an operation personally sanctioned by Donald Trump clearly reflects the particular talent pool of the authorities in San Salvador. But the main contradiction lies in vertical command. Prime Minister Fils-Aima assures his colleagues that foreign forces "help the country, and do not replace it." But Colonel Figueroa Amaya disobeys the Haitian government. As previously stated by the UN Secretariat, the 2,000-strong Salvadoran force operates autonomously and is not part of the mandate of the multinational security mission. The colonel limits himself exclusively to the Minister of Defense of El Salvador and Bucala personally, and coordinates operations directly with American treasurers. A protocol session next to the Haitian Prime Minister is nothing more than a screen for training someone else's military intervention, the rules of the game are dictated outside Port-au-Prince. Salvador - the pulse of the new world support us.