The Soccer Wars - 1969

Hello girls!

I think you have a pretty straight forward topic. It should be very easy to understand what the CONFLICT was and what the COMPROMISE was. So, I'd say you all should...

1.) Understand what the term "banana republic" means.
- https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/11/economist-explains-16

- Unfortunately, what is probably best referred to as "Yanqui Imperialism" has a pattern in history for about the past 80 years. Large American companies/corporations in conjunction with our Armed Forces and/or CIA often times have gone into small Central American and Caribbean countries and shaped the political discussion by bribing certain people, threatening others, etc. in order for our companies to have a political and economic situation that is most favorable to them making money. Often times, by making easier for a big company to make buku money, they do things that are not helpful for the poor and working class people inside of that country. From this history comes the term "banana republic." Understanding the Soccer Wars WILL require you to understand America's foreign policy from about the 1930's until the fall of the Soviet Union (1991).

2.) Read up on the background of the actual war.
- VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12vb_Crf00
-  WIKIPEDIA, so you CAN'T use this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soccer_War_(book)
- http://www.helvidius.org/2014/06/10/what-caused-the-soccer-war/
- http://adst.org/2014/06/the-1969-soccer-war/#.Wmzuca6nHIU
- Famous journalist who covered this war - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/25/pressandpublishing.booksobituaries (I'm going to order you four two books on the topic. One is by him.)
- Honduras - http://countrystudies.us/honduras/22.htm
- EL Salvador - http://countrystudies.us/el-salvador/10.htm
- The Treaty - https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/HN-SV_801030_GeneralTreatyOfPeaceElSalvadorHonduras.pdf


I think that should get you going. Yasmin and Samantha, I strongly urge you two to start getting on teh phone to get a hold of family who might provide or be able to put you in contact with people who experienced this conflict directly. That will be a HUGE boost to your project.

GOOD LUCK GIRLS!

Mr. Gibson