The former lost to the latter in a playoff game for the 1970 World
Cup. El Salvador fans then proceeded to beat up their Honduran
counterparts. Soon, the two countries were engaged in a full-blown
war, known ever since as the Soccer War. It left 3000 dead, 6000
wounded and more than $50 million in damages. It led to the election
of Colonel Sanchez Hernandez as president of El Salvador a year later.
But this was merely the latest manifestation of constant friction
between the two neighboring polities. Their international border was
never undisputedly demarcated. Honduras was the destination country
for 300,000 impoverished El Salvadoran immigrants. Hondurans long
campaigned to have them expelled. In 1968, thousands of them were.
Honduran and Salvadoran businesses bitterly competed in the same
markets. The Soccer War merely epitomized this deep-set rivalry.
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