The Football War
(Please note that this article only covers the main points of the war.) Football, one of the world's most popular sports, is simple to play, easy to understand and all you need is a ball and some imagination. But some countries love football a bit more than others such as El Salvador and Honduras. In fact, they love it so much that they went to war over it. Tensions: First of all, you should know that tensions were already high between the two countries. Let me explain. El Salvador albeit being significantly smaller than Honduras has a way larger population than Honduras and so, when illegal immigrants from El Salvador started to flood into Honduras, the Honduran Government didn't like that. The solution? Well, terrorize the Salvadorians of course. (Don’t do that) The Honduran government also started evicting the refugees (who had been living in Honduras for generations) to go back to El Salvador. The Salvadoran governme