Amelia Bolaños he’s only eighteen, but already he doesn’t want to live anymore. At least not in a world where his ElSalvador can to lose 1-0 against historic rivalsHonduras in the first leg of the play-offs for i World Championship 70’s mexican. At the triple whistle, the girl runs to her father’s desk, takes the gunif he points to it, he leaves Fire. the bullet sinks in his flesh and the tears the heart. It is a Death fast and painful. Because it turns a personal pain into a collective omen. The date of June 8, 1969 picks up on the dark twisted curse. To the burial the girl does not participate friends and relatives, but one whole nation. They’re all there, one behind the other. First the army honor strike. Then the President of the Republic, the ministers, the members of the government, the ordinary politicians. A few meters behind are even them soccer player of the national team, the same ones who had been slandered after the game, pumped full of spit, branded as home enemies.
The second leg will be played seven days later. It’s being playedEstadio de la Flor Blanca from San Salvador and the music is completely different. The evening before the game the audience breaks the windows of the hotel where Honduras is trying to sleep. They throw everything in: rotten eggs, open mice, dirty clothes. They go all night. After that, the guest team fled to the roof. The nightmare lasts the whole next day. To the to accompany at the stadium, the Honduras team served the tank the army. At every step, the players feel death threats and insults. At each meter you can see the photos of Amelia Bolaños, heroin from El Salvador. It is a delirium this brings with it an idea: to wash the blood it is necessary too poor Miscellaneous Blood.
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One of the first to understand this is the Polish writer Ryszard Kapusciński. “The Honduran anthem was greeted by a broadside of whistles and shouts – he says in his book ‘The First Football War and Other Poor Wars’ – Then instead of the Honduran flag burning under the eyes of the cheering crowd, the hosts had a torn one And hoisted dirty rags to the flagpole. Yes, this game transformed in one fight to survive and to succumb are the guests. Markus Martinez. Markus Acevedo. Mark Martinez again. El Salvador wins 3-0 but for the International Federation it is not enough. Total goals is not yet an option covered by the rules. A victory was followed by a reverse victory. So now we need a playoff.
you play Mexico City the June 26, 1969. The result scares an entire continent. The game is one torment endless. El Salvador wins 3-2 ai additionally and flies into the final against United States. For Honduras, it’s a sporting disaster detonating a social disaster. Relations between the two countries have been strained for some time. there overpopulation of El Salvador has generated a terrifying wave of Unemployment. Honduras, on the other hand, has five times the territory of its neighbors, but with eradicated unoccupied spaces. It’s a situation that can be comfortable for both of us. So the two countries signed in 1967 Bilateral Immigration Agreement. Basically, the Salvadorans get the chance relocate from the other end of the border for work. It’s an opportunity no one wants to miss. in the 300 thousand They move to the neighboring state, build villages, start cultivating the land. The solution do not like to the Honduran farmers. For many of them, poverty is already a mirage, so seeing the prosperity of foreigners becomes something very similar criminal act.
In which’April 1969 the situation fails. The Ministry of Agriculture Tegucigalpa confiscates the land of Salvadoran immigrants and orders their expulsion. The play-off for the Mexican World Cup becomes the pretext to open an international scuffle. The era of media wars is still far away, but the two governments are making strides through communication and reciprocity Accusations. After the second leg, Tegucigalpa asked the Organization of American States to do so dispute in El Salvador”force against Honduran women, destruction of cars e.g insults to the flag and the national anthem”. San Salvador has answered Urging OAS intervention against Honduras to “Genocide, murder, persecution, attacks against persons and personal property and expulsion the citizen of El Salvador”. On June 27th, a few hours after the third meeting, El Salvador breaks relationships diplomatic relations with Honduras.
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A week later, the first skirmishes begin. Jose GuerreroEl Salvador’s foreign minister says two Hondurans have C-47 planes hurt national airspace and have Open fire against border guards. The Foreign Minister of Tegucigalpa he replies those were them troops from El Salvador a shoot against an airplane of the Honduran company Sahsa. The President of the United States Richard Nixons Try one telephone exchange. But without success.
That July 14th start at hostility. Although neither country has officially declared war on its neighbor. From the early hours of the morning they start on both sides of the border Dig the trenches. In the cities motivational sentences appear. On the walls of Tegucigalpa, anonymous hands write: “3-0 You will be avenged!” and “Bad enough, don’t hope you can’t make it with Honduras”. In San Salvador the answer is “A few punches, two bù bù and Honduras is gone!”. Military operations are confusing. Governments deny each other’s successes. The soldiers of both sides hug the same weaponsCarry the same uniformsthey speak there same language. For the international press, the distinction becomes a mystery. However, the Daily Telegraph and Corriere della Sera tell a unique detail. “Both sides have archaic devices, vestige of the Second World War, but the technology of the two aircraft is more reminiscent of the first incursions of the 1914-18 ″ war. And again: “An eyewitness reported that as soon as they reach the target, Salvadoran civil and transport planes descend to a height of a few tens of meters. Crew members were seen opening the old plane’s doors and manually unloading the bombs.
The war lasts a total of one hundred hours. July 18 at 10 p.m He knows calls for a ceasefire. Honduras does accept, ElSalvador would like to continue battle. Also because it is Bought seven new planes from the United States, arriving only the next day, essential for attacking the enemy capital. The attacks continued sporadically until July 29 without great intensity. On August 5th, El Salvador realizes it can’t win the war and yes take off within your own borders. It is the end of a nearly mowed down conflict six thousand lives but that doesn’t displease the politicians. “The two governments stayed satisfied of the war – writes Ryszard Kapuściński – because for a few days Honduras and Salvador have filled up the pages of newspapers around the world that capture the attention of international public opinion”. A scant consolation for two neighboring states that have become enemies (also) for a soccer game. But on the other hand, Flaiano was right when he wrote: “If peoples knew each other better, they would hate each other more”.