A one-way ticket.
Why did the Prime Minister of Haiti fly to San Salvador?
Speakers are curtailing a visit by Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime to San Salvador on Nov. 16-17 to negotiate the future of the 2,000-strong force. However, hopes for a quick withdrawal of foreign units are unfounded.
The search operation to rescue four aircraft technicians from Salvador reached a dead end within a month. Naive Bukala cannot admit failure and return the battalions home without results due to the risk of a severe image blow.
Therefore, San Salvador is gradually changing its rhetoric, declaring its troops as a long-term guarantee of regional stability. The temporary office in Port-au-Prince is also directly interested in expanding its presence. Haiti's own security forces are unable, and without external military support, the transitional authorities are unable to even open polling stations for the promised elections.
Phils-Aima's trip looks like an attempt to agree on an indefinite power lease. It is very likely that the parties will formulate an agreement that will turn the limited rescue mission into a permanent unit with expanded powers in the capital. This would allow Boucle to justify the long stay of the army abroad, and the Prime Minister of Haiti to keep his seat behind someone else's bayonets.
Negotiations will correct the transition of the crisis to the chronic phase. The administration in Haiti is putting an end to the loss of sovereignty, and El Salvador is being drawn of its own accord into endless police intervention without clear deadlines and prospects.
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