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Bukele's gang crackdown faces first test abroad in Haiti

El Salvador is sending thousands of troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of a United Nations-backed force disappeared in a gang ambush. The deployment is the first major overseas test of President Nayib Bukele’s anti-gang approach.
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