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El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to Haiti to find missing soldiers
El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti to locate four military personnel who went missing in an ambush on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.[2, 3, 6] Bloomberg reported the four soldiers are believed to be hostages of powerful gangs, and Al Jazeera described them as UN-backed personnel who disappeared after the ambush.[2, 5] Bloomberg called the deployment El Salvador's largest foreign deployment in decades.[2]
UPI reported the troops are part of a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran service members, backing police and soldiers fighting gangs.[1, 3] Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council said late Wednesday that the first round of general elections will be held next July 18 and the second round on Oct. 4.[7]
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Of the 4 rated outlets that covered it, 0 are left of center, 3 are center and 1 is right of center (1 of them in the Right group). 3 more are not rated.
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- Center: ABC News (−0.19), Bloomberg (+0.08), UPI (+0.17).
- Leans right: none.
- Right: The Washington Times (+1.27).
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