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What sparked a war between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969?

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The illegal immigration of several hundred thousand Salvadorans across the ill-defined El Salvador-Honduras border and the expulsion of many of the immigrants by Honduras led to a war with El Salvador in July, 1969.

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