The Cause Of War (The Stranger pg.173-193)

The chapter called The Soccer War continued to impress me even more! As I kept on reading Kapuscinski I thought about the real purpose of the war between El Salvador and Honduras;however,I kept in mind that it began in a soccer game.
Finally,Kapuscinski explains that the struggles between these two countries began with a population problem in El Salvador. Salvadorians were living in Honduras because they had better lifes and because El Salvador has the greatest population density, while Honduras has much more "space" for people than El salvador. "In this circumstances the match between Honduras and El Salvador had taken place." This quotation caught my attention because it resumes how a little problem, or small conflicts add up until they end up in a war like it happend in the book.

Nontheless,as dicussed in class developing countries have the same conflicts, and have wars over almost the same things. It is extremely sad to see how developed countries advance in science and technology every day, while developing countries try to catch up with each new invension. The soccer War has showed me not only different wars in different countries, but how naive and forgotten are the third world countries.