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El Salvador deploys more than 2,000 troops to Haiti amid search for missing technicians
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Covered by 3 outlets, mostly right-leaning (67%).
4 articles in total, 1 of them opinion. The spectrum counts each outlet once and leaves opinion out. How we measure bias
The Daily Caller, One America News and Hot Air, along with The New York Times, report that El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti this week. The Salvadoran government says four aviation technicians, part of its contribution to the regional Gang Suppression Force, were kidnapped in Haiti on the 18th. Outlets report that no gang has claimed the attack. President Nayib Bukele says the deployment is not an invasion and that its goal is the technicians' return. Hot Air reports that the search had turned up no trace of the four as of its writing.
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El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti this week.
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- Left
- The New York Times
- Far Right
- The Daily Caller, One America News, Hot Air
The Salvadoran government says four aviation technicians were kidnapped in Haiti on the 18th.
One side only: the rightReported byFar Right3See the outletsHide the outlets
- Far Right
- The Daily Caller, One America News, Hot Air
No gang has publicly claimed the attack on the aviation technicians.
One outletThe Daily Caller· Far Right
Bukele says the deployment is not an invasion of Haiti and that the goal is the return of the four technicians.
One outletOne America News· Far Right
How each side tells it
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Every side present reports that El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti. The right-leaning outlets center the story on four kidnapped Salvadoran technicians and Bukele's response, while the one left-leaning piece asks whether Bukele could be Haiti's savior.
the left
1 outlet
The one left-side piece, from The New York Times, uses a question headline that casts the deployment as a possible rescue of Haiti.
Could El Salvador’s Bukele Be Haiti’s Savior?
The New York TimesLeftAll left-leaning headlines the center
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No center outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.
the right
2 outlets · 1 opinion
Right-side headlines lead with a rescue of soldiers kidnapped by gangs, and one answers charges of invasion with Bukele's denial.
Bukele Deploys 2,000 Troops To Haiti To Rescue Soldiers Kidnapped By Gangs
The Daily CallerFar RightAll right-leaning headlines
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Left0
No loaded words in its own voice.
Center
Has not covered this story.
Right3
flooded HaitiNo-nonsense Salvadoran presidentlong used to running amok
In the outlets’ own words
Loaded verb
flooded HaitiMore neutral: has sent more than 2,000 soldiers to
Describes a troop deployment with a word of overwhelming force where sent describes the same event.
El Salvador has flooded Haiti with more than 2,000 soldiers after gangs seized four of its troops in a roadside…
Used byThe Daily Caller (Far Right)
Loaded modifier
No-nonsense Salvadoran presidentMore neutral: Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele
The label praises the president in the outlet's own voice before any facts about his conduct are given.
No-nonsense Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele asked politely for his troops to be returned unharmed, but…
Used byHot Air (Far Right)
Sensational language
long used to running amokMore neutral: Haitian gangs, which operate across much of the country,
The phrase describes the gangs in dramatic, pejorative terms rather than stating what they did.
Haitian gangs, long used to running amok as they wished, mocked the president and sent the remains of four…
Used byHot Air (Far Right)
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From the left
1 outletLeads with
- scale of the foreign deployment
- Bukele as a possible savior for Haiti
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Could El Salvador’s Bukele Be Haiti’s Savior?
The Salvadoran government dispatched more than 2,000 troops to Haiti this week in an extraordinary deployment on foreign soil.
From the center
0 outletsNo center outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.
From the right
2 outlets · 1 opinionLeads with
- rescue of kidnapped Salvadoran personnel
- gangs blamed for the abduction
- Bukele's denial of an invasion
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- One America NewsFar Right
Bukele: Deployment of Salvadoran soldiers not an invasion of Haiti; seek return of missing technicians
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asserted that the deployment of Salvadoran soldiers in Haiti is not an invasion, but that the goal remains the return of the four aviation technicians who were purportedly kidnapped.
- The Daily CallerFar Right
Bukele Deploys 2,000 Troops To Haiti To Rescue Soldiers Kidnapped By Gangs
El Salvador has Loaded verb“flooded Haiti”Describes a troop deployment with a word of overwhelming force where sent describes the same event.More neutral: has sent more than 2,000 soldiers toDisagree with this highlight? with more than 2,000 soldiers after gangs seized four of its troops in a roadside ambush. President Nayib Bukele ordered the surge to recover the missing men and support local forces battling armed groups, according to the BBC. …
Bukele Now Has Over Two Thousand Troops in Haiti
Just a couple of days ago, I told you how four Salvadoran aviation techs, sent to Haiti as members of El Salvador's contribution to the (mostly) regional Gang Suppression Force (GSF) now operating there, had been ambushed and kidnapped on the 18th. …
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Left
16 hr 48 min later
Its first report, Oct 30, 3:22 PM EDT
Center
No report yet
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Right
First to report
The Daily Caller, Oct 29, 10:33 PM EDT
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- The Daily CallerFar RightOct 29, 10:33 PM EDT
- The New York TimesLeftOct 30, 3:22 PM EDT
- One America NewsFar RightOct 30, 5:55 PM EDT
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