Editing Football War (section)

==Consequences==
El Salvador suffered up to 700 casualties throughout the course of the war, including 107 deaths. Three aircraft were also destroyed in Honduran air raids. Official records state Honduras suffered 165 casualties, including 99 deaths, but such numbers have been disputed;<ref name="casualty">{{Cite book |last=Clodfelter |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/warfarearmedconf0000clod/page/682/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1494-2007 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2008 |isbn=9780786433193 |edition=3rd |pages=682 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Nueva Ocotepeque's parish priest reportedly saw 400 dead<!-- soldiers -->,<ref name="TIME" /> while internal CIA documents report up to 1,500.<ref name="CIA" /> Most historians agree that civilians accounted for the majority of the losses.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=El Salvador - The 1969 War with Honduras |url=https://countrystudies.us/el-salvador/10.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006041730/https://countrystudies.us/el-salvador/10.htm |archive-date=6 October 2012 |access-date=2 June 2024 |website=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]}}</ref>

Some 300,000 Salvadorans had been displaced; many had been forcibly exiled or had fled from war-torn Honduras, only to enter an El Salvador in which the government was not welcoming. Most of these refugees were forced to provide for themselves with very little assistance. Over the next few years, more Salvadorans returned to their native land, where they encountered overpopulation and extreme poverty.<ref name="Anderson-1981" />{{RP|145–155}} The resulting social unrest was one of the causes of the [[Salvadoran Civil War]], which followed approximately a decade later in which 70,000 to 80,000 died and a further 8,000 more disappeared.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dutra Salgado |first=Pedro |date=22 February 2024 |title=The 100-hour war between El Salvador and Honduras is famous for starting with a football match – the truth is more complicated |url=https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/democratic-citizenship/the-100-hour-war-between-el-salvador-and-honduras-is-famous-for-starting-with-a-football-match-the-truth-is-more-complicated |access-date=1 June 2024 |website=University of Portsmouth}}</ref>

Trade between Honduras and El Salvador, which had been heavily disrupted pre-war,<ref name=":1" /> was outright stopped following it.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=22}} Honduras would go on to leave and thereby further weaken the already ailing [[Central American Common Market]], a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the [[Cuban Revolution]].<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=38}}<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=W. Gordon |first=Michael |year=1978 |title=The CACM Nations, Panama and Belize: Prospects and Barriers to Trade with the United States and the Caribbean Basin |url=https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=mjil |journal=Maryland Journal of International Law |publisher=[[University of Maryland, Baltimore]] |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=20–36 |via=DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law}}</ref>