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Literaria: "The first war of the football." Games of football and military governments.

dusk a plane flew over the city and dropped a bomb. The roar was heard everywhere. The hills surrounding the repeated roar of torn metal, so many said that it was a series of bombs: the city was invaded by panic. The people gave to escape, the dealers out of business, abandoned cars littered the streets. A woman ran onto the sidewalk, shouting, "My son, my son! '. Then he was silent and was the silence, a silence of death. After a moment the lights went out and all Tegucigalpa sank into darkness.

Sinking into darkness. A simple remedy against the bombing is to switch off the lights. The whole town turns out the light and air do not know where to drop bombs. The planes, that July of 1969, were those of the aviation Salvador. Ryszard Kapucinsky (Pinsk, March 4, 1932 - Warsaw, January 23, 2007), Polish journalist and writer, the only foreign correspondent - and socialist - in Honduran land in those days, he explains the reason for the attack aircraft and the war between Honduras Salvador and lasted a hundred hours. El Salvador, which in the map of America Central State is in Guatemala with the flag horizontally striped blue and white with a triangular Escudo de Armas in the center, at the time was a kind of private ownership of a few - very few - family of landowners. The rich were sharing the land and wealth while the peasants did not even know where to build the four walls in which to spend the night. Given this situation, the farmers decided to move a few miles further east. In Honduras, the atlas that has the flag equal to that of Salvador, the only difference being that five star hotel instead of the Escudo.

The Honduran government, at least at first, tolerated the influx, because there was ground to work with and low population density. Until the Honduran peasants, those who already were in Honduras, El Salvador prior to immigration, it started complaining about not having land to work. The government, pro-American, fell in embarrassment. Honduras and more than half because it was owned by an American multinational that traded in bananas and, consequently, there was no land to distribute. The only viable solution remains to divide the land among the peasants in Honduras Honduran employed over the years by farmers in El Salvador, pushing them to their country. The Salvadoran military government to oligarchic control, however, did not remain inert. Also because, as mentioned above, there was no land in El Salvador. Or rather, the land was there, but in other hands. The rich. Inevitable international friction is created. With farmers in the middle.

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The World Cup of 1970 would be played in Mexico. The Mexican national, by far the team to beat in the CONCACAF zone, had qualified automatically to the finals and then the other Central American were chasing a historic qualification. And then, 12 teams, divided in 4 groups. The Honduras dominated the Group 1, against Costa Rica and Jamaica, Haiti and Guatemala took a ball and Trinidad and Tobago in Group 2. El Salvador for his part did not encounter too much resistance on the part of Guyana and the Dutch Antilles in Group 3. The United States finally made out of Bermuda and Canada in the last group. At the World Cup would take part in the Mexican winners of the two play-offs. Winner Group 1 v Winner Group 3. Winner 2 v Winner 4. That is to say against the United States and Haiti Honduras against El Salvador. One way, return and eventual playoff at a neutral venue in case of equality of victories. While Haiti is easily got rid of the still inexperienced national stars and stripes, 8 June 1969 Estadio Nacional de Tegucigalpa we played the match between Honduras and El Salvador. The national team of El Salvador had not slept the night before, kept awake by the home fans stationed under the hotel. Metals and drums, a deafening noise. And sleep was heard. Wells sunk the fullback All'89esimo giving guests the way to Honduras.

Nothing seemed lost for the representative of El Salvador, who could still count on the return leg to bring the play-off challenge. It happened in El Salvador, however, that a girl named Amelia Bolanos he shot himself to the heart to miss seeing on television from his country. The government and the media rode the episode. After two days the state funeral was celebrated with direct national and senior state in the queue to the coffin of the girl. The tension for the return match, meanwhile, rose dramatically. On 14 June, the Honduran national arrived in San Salvador for the return match. The local fans returned the favor and metal drums and the government, for his part, a bolus injection. The Estadio De La Flor Blanca - which today is known as Jorge "Magico" Gonzalez - the day after it was militarized. In a surreal atmosphere, the national of El Salvador took what he thought was his due. He won 3 to zero, with two goals and the goals of the companion centrattacco Martinez Acevedo department, returning home stunned the eleven Honduras.

After reading these facts in the newspaper, Luis said that war would break out: At one time it was a good correspondent, knew what was spoken. "In Latin America," he said "the line between football and politics is very thin and long is the list of governments overthrown or killed by the army for a loss of national"

And, in fact, the war broke out. A few days after the playoff victory at the Estadio Azteca in El Salvador in Mexico City (3 to 2, yet Martinez for Salvadorans, even twice. Responding to Gomez and Cardona for Honduras. Finally, the decisive goal in extra time of Rodriguez that earned him the World). It lasted a few days, just under a week. It was fought with guns used by German troops during World War II (the Mauser ) and the victims were about six thousand. The problems were solved within the war. Of course, lasted one hundred hours because those are not economically sustainable, particularly as, outside of any strategy by both countries. Perhaps a contributing cause, a pretext, a means. Maybe coincidence. Or maybe he was right in defining Luis with a veil the distance between the ball and military governments.

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Ryszard Kapucinsky was born in Pinsk, when he was still in Poland. He studied in Warsaw and a life he worked as a correspondent for the Third World Polska Agencja Prasow ( Polish Press Agency). Among his books, including Ebony , including several from Africa and matches Shah-in-Shah, a splendid analysis of the revolutions of the soul.

For most people who live in the real world ends up on the doorstep, at the edge of the village, at most, on the border the valley. The world beyond is unreal, insignificant and even useless, and what they have on hand and under the eyes rises to the size of a large universe obscuring everything else.