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El Salvador Has Invaded Haiti. Here’s What You Need to Know.
LongEducation
Published Oct 29, 2026
Views
5M
Likes
64K
Speed /h
57K
+24h
+276K
Early catch
Updated 07:25 AMSpotted 1 h before it took off, and it went viral.
- Vs usual
- 7×
- Views/h now
- 12K
- Channel size
- 762K
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 5.2M
- Best hour
- +224K
- At 24 hours
- 3.1M
- At 7 days
- –
22 of 86 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 88 / 100
- Category percentile
- 95 / 100
- ×base
- ×7
- Channel typical
- 762K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.11×
- Momentum
- ×0.36
- Decay
- 0.89
- Speed half-life
- 4d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 1.23%
- Comments per 1k views
- 2.68
- Engagement rate
- 1.50%
- Views per subscriber
- 3.53×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Category chart | #6 | Oct 30 |
| Denmark | Category chart | #9 | Oct 30 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #16 | Oct 30 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #17 | Oct 31 |
| United States | Category chart | #17 | Oct 30 |
| New Zealand | Category chart | #20 | Oct 30 |
| Switzerland | Category chart | #22 | Oct 30 |
| Canada | Category chart | #29 | Oct 30 |
| Australia | Category chart | #38 | Oct 31 |
| Poland | Category chart | #42 | Oct 30 |
| Singapore | Category chart | #45 | Oct 30 |
4d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 29, 2026, 7:15 PM
- Duration
- 18:19
- Category
- Education
- Audio language
- English (en)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Military
- Politics
- Society
Title and description in 18 languages
- Arabic
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
Description
El Salvador has deployed roughly a thousand troops to Haiti after gang members ambushed and kidnapped four Salvadoran soldiers serving with an international peacekeeping mission. President Nayib Bukele, renowned for his aggressive anti-gang crackdowns domestically, launched the military operation threatening severe consequences unless his men are returned alive and unharmed. References https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/around-1000-soldiers-el-salvador-have-deployed-haiti-source-says-2026-10-27/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/el-salvador-soldiers-deployed-haiti-9.7398494 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article317789933.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly097zw1xwo https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world/americas/el-salvador-military-haiti-gangs.html https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/22/americas/el-salvador-troops-haiti-latam-intl https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/22/el-salvador-launches-military-operation-in-haiti-to-free-four-kidnapped-aviation-technicia https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-haiti-special-forces-gangs-03ec2bf89616d8b313c54da34c24eab1 https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-haiti-bukele-gangs-hostages-822efd292abcd7caa13cf085956f93cc https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/el-salvador-attempts-rescue-of-military-personnel-after-gang-ambush-in-haiti-8ca67b13 https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/10/27/can-bukele-beat-haitis-gangs/ https://www.latintimes.com/el-salvador-troops-haiti-missing-technicians-600562 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article317750804.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/world/americas/salvadoran-soldiers-haiti-dead.html https://www.diplomacyandlaw.com/post/el-salvador-haiti https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/10/26/confusion-haiti-over-whether-bodies-belong-missing-salvadoran-soldiers/ https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/why-el-salvador-s-strongman-is-directing-threats-at-haitian-gangs https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/haitis-gang-crackdown-can-more-boots-and-force-restore-what-the-state-cannot/Show all
El Salvador has deployed roughly a thousand troops to Haiti after gang members ambushed and kidnapped four Salvadoran soldiers serving with an international peacekeeping mission. President Nayib Bukele, renowned for his aggressive anti-gang crackdowns domestically, launched the military operation threatening severe consequences unless his men are returned alive and unharmed. References https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/around-1000-soldiers-el-salvador-have-deployed-haiti-source-says-2026-10-27/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/el-salvador-soldiers-deployed-haiti-9.7398494 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article317789933.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly097zw1xwo https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world/americas/el-salvador-military-haiti-gangs.html https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/22/americas/el-salvador-troops-haiti-latam-intl https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/22/el-salvador-launches-military-operation-in-haiti-to-free-four-kidnapped-aviation-technicia https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-haiti-special-forces-gangs-03ec2bf89616d8b313c54da34c24eab1 https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-haiti-bukele-gangs-hostages-822efd292abcd7caa13cf085956f93cc https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/el-salvador-attempts-rescue-of-military-personnel-after-gang-ambush-in-haiti-8ca67b13 https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/10/27/can-bukele-beat-haitis-gangs/ https://www.latintimes.com/el-salvador-troops-haiti-missing-technicians-600562 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article317750804.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/world/americas/salvadoran-soldiers-haiti-dead.html https://www.diplomacyandlaw.com/post/el-salvador-haiti https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/10/26/confusion-haiti-over-whether-bodies-belong-missing-salvadoran-soldiers/ https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/why-el-salvador-s-strongman-is-directing-threats-at-haitian-gangs https://latinamericanpost.com/americas/haitis-gang-crackdown-can-more-boots-and-force-restore-what-the-state-cannot/
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