When the war stopped because of football.

Cover up the "football war" between Honduras and El Salvador.

In the late 1960s, two small countries in Central America, Honduras and El Salvador, broke out in war, which was called "football war" in history. However, this war called "football" has nothing to do with football in essence. Both Hongsa countries want to pass on the crisis in the name of football. Football is just duckweed in the water, but in its depths, there is a conspiracy between the two countries.

From 65438 to 0968, the regime of Ló pez Arellano, who came to power through a military coup, was in a serious predicament: the economic situation deteriorated, labor conflicts continued, and the political situation was unstable. Even the right-wing conservative Fernando Group has criticized this. With the deterioration of the social situation, the Honduran government and some private groups gradually blamed the country's economic difficulties on about 300,000 Salvadoran immigrants working in Honduras. Fernando Group believes that Salvadoran immigrants have illegally occupied their land. 1969 10, the Honduran government refused to renew the 1967 bilateral immigration treaty with El Salvador, which guarantees the free movement of citizens of the two countries in the border areas. In April, the Honduran government announced that Salvadoran immigrants began to be deprived of the land acquired in the agricultural reform because they did not meet the legal requirements of their birthplace in Honduras. At the same time, Honduras launched a propaganda campaign in the media, deliberately exaggerating the impact of Salvadoran immigrants on the unemployment and wage decline of domestic workers. In late May, Salvadoran immigrants began to leave Honduras and return to the populous motherland.

June 1969 Tensions between the two countries continued to escalate. At this moment, the football teams from Saskatchewan and Hong Kong who participated in the 1970 World Cup qualifiers have just started. The first game was held in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. The winning Honduran beat the Salvadoran fans and caused riots. The second game was held in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, and the situation was even worse. Salvadorans not only beat Honduran fans, but also insulted the Honduran flag and national anthem. The third game was held in Mexico City, and finally El Salvador beat Honduras 3-2. Hondurans became angry from embarrassment, retaliated, persecuted Salvadorans in Hong, and even spared several vice consuls. Many people were killed or abused, and tens of thousands fled Honduras. The news media of the two countries also took the opportunity to incite national sentiment. 1On June 27th, 969, Honduras announced that it had broken diplomatic relations with El Salvador.

14 On the morning of July, El Salvador began to take military action against Honduras, and the football war broke out.

After the war began, the Organization of American States held an emergency rally, calling for an immediate ceasefire, and Venezuelan troops withdrew from Honduras. 18 In July, the Salvadoran government agreed to sign a ceasefire agreement, which came into full force on the 20th. In early August, El Salvador began to withdraw its troops from Honduras. This football war, which has nothing to do with football in essence, only lasted for more than four days, but it took ten years to reach a final peace agreement.

The war was criticized by the Salvadoran people and junior officers, but it aroused the national consciousness and self-esteem of Hondurans. Thousands of Honduran workers and peasants demanded to join the army to defend their country, and local defense organizations mushroomed. Countless ordinary people even picked up machetes and went to the battlefield. Just like other military conflicts in El Salvador's history. 1969 Sahong war (called football war) is rooted in the inconsistency of economic development between the two countries. El Salvador has a small territory, a large population and a severely limited arable land, but its economy is relatively developed, while Honduras has a small territory, a small population and a relatively backward economy. By 1969, about 300,000 Salvadorans had crossed the border and taken root in sparsely populated Honduras. Most of these people are illegal immigrants. They occupy cultivated land just because they live here. For Honduras, land is not a problem, but its increasingly besieged image and national sentiment. Throughout the 1960s, the operating mechanism of the Central American Common Market became more and more beneficial to the economically developed countries in the region, especially Guatemala and El Salvador. El Salvador has many enterprises in Honduras-shoe stores can be seen everywhere-which shows the economic gap between the two countries. As a result, Salvadoran immigrants-although they have no practical economic significance-have become the pain point to stimulate Honduran nationalism.

Two years before the conflict broke out, the border situation between Sahong and China became increasingly tense. 1969 At the beginning of this year, Honduran President Oswaldo Lopez Arellano promulgated the agricultural reform law to expel Salvadoran refugees. However, the Lopez government is experiencing economic and political difficulties, so they use Salvadoran refugees as scapegoats. Then, reports and pictures about the resettlement of Salvadoran immigrants flooded the news media in El Salvador, and rumors about the forced resettlement of immigrants by Honduran troops continued to spread in El Salvador.

In addition to national pride and chauvinism, El Salvador's military action also has its potential motives. The return of Salvadoran immigrants has increased the employment pressure and social unrest in the country. The deterioration of the situation has seriously shaken the political foundation of the Sanchez government. Therefore, taking military action against Honduras has become the most convenient choice for the government to reverse the situation. Although the war with Honduras will almost certainly lead to the collapse of the Central American market, El Salvador is willing to pay the price.

The war has brought a series of negative effects to both sides. El Salvador spent a lot of arms and had to increase military investment to replenish its almost exhausted arms reserves, which caused serious internal friction in its economy. About 60,000-65,438+030,000 Salvadorans were forcibly expelled or fled Honduras. El Salvador has lost the economic "safety valve" brought by illegal immigrants to Honduras, and the land pressure has once again become prominent. As many as 2,000 Hondurans, mainly civilians, were killed in the war; Thousands of Hondurans living in border areas are homeless. The war not only seriously damaged the economies of the two countries, but also made the Central American market exist in name only. The trade between the two sides was completely terminated, the border was closed, and the air flight between the two countries was interrupted for ten years.