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While guests at the French Embassy enjoyed the Bastille Day cocktail party in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, a slow old C-47 transport plane circled the city. One of the plane doors opened and out rolled a bomb that landed harmlessly in a muddy field. It was the Honduran capital's first taste of the tragic and senseless miniwar that erupted last week between Honduras and El Salvador. At two points along the ill-defined border, Salvadoran troops pushed into Honduras, and the small air force of each country flew raids against military and industrial targets. After five...
...damage was already done. An estimated 2,000 soldiers and civilians, mostly Hondurans, were reported dead. Honduran bombs damaged El Salvador's biggest oil refinery. The future effectiveness of the Central American Common Market, which has brought a surprising amount of industrialization to the region of the combatants in the past nine years, was imperiled, and the area's main lifeline, the Inter-American Highway, was closed down by the fighting. In the wake of death and damage, a legacy of bitterness was created that might well bedevil the two neighbors for years...
...home, Salvadorans have of necessity become scrambling go-getters who have achieved a substantial level of industrialization. As expatriates in Honduras, Salvadorans have excelled as farm workers and shopkeepers. Increasingly, Hondurans began to resent the Salvadoran intruders, who sometimes took jobs and land away from local people. Honduras last year decreed a land reform, ostensibly to create more equitable distribution of its farm acreage. But one major effect was to deny Salvadorans the right to own land. Many Salvadorans, forced off their Honduran farms, began to return to their overcrowded homeland...
...Mobs of Honduran hoodlums terrorized Salvadoran settlers by setting fire to their houses if they failed to heed warnings to leave. Salvadorans wrote to relatives at home telling of murder and rape by Honduras toughs. More than 11,000 Salvadorans fled Honduras, and frequent small clashes took place along the border...
...Tampa next day the crew would hand him over to "the people in Ybor City," a section of town jammed with Castro-hating exiles. Ramírez pulled a .38 and shot his tormentor, then, wild with fury, dashed aft to kill Franco and the others, sparing only the Honduran youngster and the cook "because I had nothing against them...