Haitian security forces wrested the country’s largest stadium from the two-year-long grip of gangs and handed it to Salvadoran soldiers for safeguarding Thursday, according to multiple reports. Haitian National Police said it had taken “full control” of the Stade Sylvio Cator in downtown Port-au-Prince, aided by the Task Force, a private security group serving the government, the Jamaica Observer reported. Salvadoran state-run media announced that their country’s forces were handed control of the stadium Thursday, the outlet added. “Under the bilateral agreement between the governments of Haiti and El Salvador, a joint operation involving the Haitian National Police, the Haitian Armed Forces (FAd’H), the Task Force, and El Salvador’s Special Forces successfully took control of Sylvio Cator Stadium and secured it,” El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced Thursday. “During the operation, we discovered several human skulls inside the stadium.” Bukele said his forces were now in control of the stadium, which will now be a base from which to launch an offensive against the gangs. He demanded that the gangs leave before the offensive begins. Sanble gang yo pa vle goumen avè n… 🇸🇻🇭🇹 https://t.co/h7HpfabQKT The 10,000-person capacity stadium had fallen in 2024 into the hands of gangs who had gobbled up much of Haiti, the poorest country in the Caribbean, according to the outlet. The Haitian national football team resorted to playing their World Cup qualifying matches on the tiny Dutch-controlled island of Curacao, more than 500 miles southeast of Haiti, instead. This follows Bukele’s announcement Tuesday that his 2000-odd soldiers in Haiti on his orders had destroyed a mansion belonging to Wilson “Lanmò San Jou” Joseph and the “headquarters” of 400 Mawozo, one of Haiti’s main gangs, which Lanmò San Jou leads. Bukele branded the gang “cowards.” He had crowdsourced the coordinates of Lanmò San Jou’s mansion four days before on X. (RELATED: Bukele Delivers On Promise To Bomb Haitian Gang Mansion Using Crowdsourced Coordinates) Bukele deployed his soldiers to Haiti to rescue four Salvadoran soldiers who went missing after an Oct. 18 ambush in Port-au-Prince, according to the Jamaica Observer. Salvadoran security forces have been engaged in a largely successful offensive since 2022 against Salvadoran gangs, which by 2023 drastically halved the murder rate in the country, according to Reuters. The anti-gang military campaign has involved the suspension of certain constitutional rights, The Associated Press reported, and exposed Bukele to international criticism over reports of rampant human rights violations, unsubstantiated arrests, and in-custody deaths.