The Hundred-Hour War: Beyond the Football Myth

El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day war triggered by land reform and mass migration.

The nineteen sixty-nine soccer matches were a catalyst for violence rather than the primary cause.

Honduran land reform laws in nineteen sixty-two targeted Salvadoran peasants for property seizures.

Vague colonial-era maps led to violent border clashes between national patrols in rugged terrain.

The Organization of American States brokered a ceasefire only one hundred hours after combat began.

A nineteen ninety-two International Court of Justice ruling finally settled the long-standing border disputes.