Video taking off 25x its usual first day

Haiti's national stadium retaken, with Salvadoran troops securing the site

FRANCE 24 reports that the football venue will become an operational base after two years under gang control.

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FRANCE 24 English Story of November 14, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 189,426 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (7,500).

Haitian forces recapture national stadium after two years of gang control • FRANCE 24 English

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The pitch isn't reopening yet. Haitian police say they have regained full control of the country's main football stadium, but the next use announced for the venue is a military base, not a return to matches.

FRANCE 24 English reports that police and the Task Force, a private security group serving Haiti's government, retook the Sylvio Cator Stadium in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. Salvadoran soldiers then took over security at the site. Gang control had forced Haiti's national football team to play elsewhere.

The report shows armored vehicles moving through the capital and a firearm-equipped robotic ground unit among the Salvadoran military equipment. In a social media statement carried in the video, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the stadium will become an operational base for advances into gang-controlled territory. Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé welcomes the collaboration.

The report also includes Amnesty International's warning that the operations could worsen violence, alongside its call for the terms of the agreement to be disclosed.

The Short reached roughly 137,000 views in its first 13 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience. A separate, longer stadium report also drew an unusually large audience. In that upload, senior reporter Catherine Norris Trent describes retaking the venue as a significant step in an area she calls a "devastated wasteland."

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