El Salvador authorizes the participation of its Armed Forces in Haiti

The Official Gazette of the Republic of El Salvador published on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Decree No. 679, which contains the Special Transitional Law for the Participation of the Armed Forces of El Salvador in the Gang Suppression Force (GSP) in Haiti. The regulation, issued by the Legislative Branch and sanctioned at the Presidential House by President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez and the Minister of National Defense, René Francis Merino Monroy, enables the participation of Salvadoran personnel in the international gang suppression mission deployed in Haitian territory. The text occupies pages 12 to 16 of Volume No. 452, Number 181, of the official bulletin.

What the September 30 bulletin publishes

The Official Gazette corresponding to Wednesday, September 30, 2026, appears under Volume No. 452, Number 181, with Oswaldo Stanley Morales Hidalgo as director of the National Printing Office. Decree No. 679 appears in the summary within the Legislative Branch section, spanning pages 12 to 16, and its full title is Special Transitional Law for the Participation of the Armed Forces of El Salvador in the Gang Suppression Force (GSP) in Haiti.

The publication coincides with the date of the executive sanction: the Presidential House registered the decree on the thirtieth day of the month of September, two thousand twenty-six, with the signatures of President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez and the Minister of National Defense, René Francis Merino Monroy, according to the signature block that closes the text on page 16.

Legislative process and decree signatures

The decree bears the rubric of the Board of Directors of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador:

• Ernesto Alfredo Castro Aldana, president.
• Suecy Beverley Callejas Estrada, first vice president.
• Katheryn Alexia Rivas González, second vice president.
• Elisa Marcela Rosales Ramírez, first secretary.
• José Serafín Orantes Rodríguez, second secretary.
• Reinaldo Alcides Carballo Carballo, third secretary.

The executive sanction corresponds to President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez and the Minister of National Defense, René Francis Merino Monroy, according to the signature block published at the end of the articles.

Other decrees and agreements of the same number

The same issue of the Official Gazette includes other decrees from the Legislative Branch:

• Decree No. 675, tax exemption in favor of the Lumen Dos Mil Association of El Salvador (pages 3 to 5).
• Decree No. 676, special and transitory provisions for the exemption of tax levies on humanitarian aid funds for the former employees of the company Impression Apparel Group, Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable (pages 6 to 8).
• Decree No. 677, authorization for the Executive Branch in the Treasury Branch to sign, on behalf of the State, a loan agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (pages 9 to 11).

In the legislative agreements section, the Legislative Assembly approved the labor reports of various ministries corresponding to the 2025-2026 period, including Agreement No. 262, which endorses the report of the Ministry of National Defense, signed on September 2, 2026 (pages 17 to 20).

The entry in the Official Gazette makes Decree No. 679 the published legal basis for Salvadoran participation in the Gang Suppression Force (GSP) in Haiti, a decision that directly affects deployed military personnel and their families and places El Salvador’s foreign and security policy at the center of public debate.

Source: Official Gazette, Volume No. 452, Number 181, September 30, 2026, Legislative Branch, pp. 12-16 (official reference: Decree No. 679).