#FreeHaiti: God is With Him!

 

This is a picture from the Angel Studios movie David. A little over a month ago I wrote a post (linked here) based on a song from that movie. It was a desparate cry for prayer and intervention for Haiti. It seems as though someone was listening to those prayers, and that He has power! 

This picture is Jonathan, the son of King Saul who came to be David's best friend. It is right after David defeated the giant Goliath with a stone and a sling. The underdog of underdogs story. But David made it clear that it was God that would deliver the enemy into his hands. In this clip, after Goliath fell, the Israelites are extremely encouraged and go running after the Philistines. Here Jonathan yells, "God is with him!" as it was confirmed that God did deliver Goliath into the hands of David. 

On October 18, a few weeks ago, four El Salvadoran soldiers who were part of the Gang Suppression Force went missing. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that he would be sending in soldiers to take care of the gangs and that they needed give back their men. You may already know that El Salvador had a large gang problem that was cleaned up under the direction of Bukele. Here is an article with some explanation. 

On October 21, Bukele sent this message on X in Haitian Creole, telling Haitian gangs that their role in Haiti is simply as pilots and technicians, not for combat, but since they kidnapped the four El Salvadoran men, they were sending soldiers after them, and they better turn them in alive. If not, they will regret it. He also let them know that they already dealt with gangs successfully in El Salvador. Here is the post. 

I started seeing a lot of comments of people being skeptical, and I understood. Was this a political ploy? An invasion? 

The leader of the gang 400 Mawozo, (the gang that kidnapped the 17 Mennonite missionaries five years ago), replied with a video of him saying things like, "I don't know when men fear. That's not written in any history. If we have to fight to stay alive, we'll fight to stay alive." He also showed lots of ammunition. Here is the video. 

In the days following, more than 2,000 El Salvadoran soldiers were apparently deployed to Haiti. 

On October 29, Bukele sent out another X post in Haitian Creole to the Haitian people. When I read it, I became very hopeful. I thought it was spot on and saw that God is with him. He assured that this was not an invasion and the intent is to get his soldiers back. He told a bit about the terror they lived in in El Salvador but now they are living peacefully. He also said that El Salvador is not a big country trying to take over. They are funding 90% of the operation. Bukele quoted 2 Chronicles 7:4 where God promises to heal their land if they turn to him and seek him. Here is the post. 

At this point, I got very hopeful and excited. Since then, it's been justice served. Almost every day when I check my favorite link to the world, Facebook, there are posts about another gang leader falling. I would never celebrate anyone's death, but I am praising the God of justice for it finally being served. 

On October 30, a gang leader I hadn't heard of named Galaxie was apparently killed by Haitian police. Here is an article. 

The next news I saw was that the wife of the leader of the gang Chen Mechan, which I had heard of, was killed in a shoot out. I don't see a good article about this, mostly posts and videos in Spanish. 

Around November 2, I saw that the UN confirmed that they had received a letter from the leader of 400 Mawozo, the same one showing the bullets in his video. In the letter, he asked for peace and dialogue. Here is an article. 

Thursday, November 5, I saw this post by a Dominican news source. A gang leader I hadn't heard of was captured as he tried to escape by sea to the Bahamas. 

Friday, November 6, I saw that the leader of the gang Boston in Cite Soleil was killed. His name was Mathias Saintil. This I was able to confirm with a friend who lives there. 

And today, Saturday, November 7, I see that Vitel Homme Innocent was captured, but it looks like that might be AI, unfortunately.

Anyway, I can't confirm all of these, but I can say that things seem shaken up like I haven't seen before. You may have heard that the Haitian government hired Erik Prince and his private security team to fight the gangs. After a year and a half, it wasn't going well. They apparently hadn't killed or captured a single gang leader and had accidentally killed several civilians by drones. I now see that CNN released an article about Erik Prince on October 17, the day before the El Salvandoran men disappeared. Coincidence???

Bukele said, "We know what that means: living in fear, not trusting politicians, not believing anyone who promises to help you. Because no one came to help us, and those who did come didn’t have good intentions in their hearts."

El Salvador is a small country, as Bukele said. They are not a big military power. But it seems to me that they have come out of love...love for the their four men they are searching for and love for the Haitian people they wish to help free. God appears to be with them as he was with David. 

Please watch this clip and keep praying!!