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[14] [15] [16] In June 1969, El Salvador played three games against Honduras in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup. [5]: 64 Then, on 26 June 1969, El Salvador won a play-off game 3 goals to 2 against Haiti, taking a place in the cup finals. [17] On 14 July 1969, armed hostilities began between El Salvador and Honduras.
The Football War (also called The Soccer War or 100-hours War) was a term coined by Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuściński to describe a brief conflict between El Salvador and neighbouring Honduras. He argued that the war began after the rival nations traded wins during the qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup .
In the 1970s, with the rise of left-wing militant groups in El Salvador and after the very brief Football War against Honduras in 1969, the Salvadoran government structured the Army to plan and prepare for counter-insurgency operations. By the beginning of the offensive, the Army was already on a counter-insurgency footing. [22]
Alfredo Cristiani. The year 1989 was of key importance for the armed conflict in El Salvador.In February of that year, a far-right paramilitary organisation known as the "Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade" placed a bomb near the building of the Salvadoran Workers Union (Spanish: Unión de Trabajadores Salvadoreños). [3]
Pages in category "Battles involving El Salvador" ... Battle of Coatepeque (1863) D. Domínguez's expedition to Honduras; F. Final offensive of 1981 (El Salvador) H.
Pages in category "Military history of El Salvador" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Battle of San Salvador (1822)
El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua: Victory: Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1845 El Salvador Honduras: Status Quo Ante Bellum: Filibuster War (1856–1857) Costa Rica Nicaragua Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States United Kingdom (naval support) Filibusters: Victory. William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy
The El Mozote massacre took place both in and around the village of El Mozote, in the Morazán Department, El Salvador, on December 11 and 12, 1981, when the Salvadoran Army killed more than 811 civilians [1] during the Salvadoran Civil War. The army had arrived in the village on the 10th, following clashes with guerrillas in the area.