'We kept our promise': Bukele's troops destroy the headquarters of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, and Haiti's prime minister says thank you

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says his forces in Haiti destroyed the headquarters of the 400 Mawozo gang and the house of its leader, known as Lanmò San Jou, posting helicopter video of the strike on X on Tuesday.

"We kept our promise," Bukele wrote in Haitian Creole. "We destroyed Lanmò San Jou's house and the headquarters of the 400 Mawozo gang. Most of them ran away without even trying to fight. What cowards!"

The video shows Salvadoran helicopters flying over a two-story building and firing on it, with smoke rising over the neighborhood. The post had nearly 200,000 likes and more than 9 million views by Tuesday night.

Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé thanked him the same day. "My respects to President Nayib Bukele for his support and commitment to the national effort against the gangs," he wrote, adding: "The gangs will not be able to sleep."

400 Mawozo is one of Haiti's most notorious gangs, based in Croix-des-Bouquets near Port-au-Prince. Bukele sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran aviation technicians went missing in a gang ambush on Oct. 18. Fils-Aimé is set to visit El Salvador on Nov. 16-17 to discuss the future of the deployment.