FICTION

The Great Honduras - Salvador Soccer War
PART I | PART II

Honduras is a real country. Roatan is a real island. The war that grew out of a "best out of three" soccer playoff was a real war. Which is to say that real people got themselves killed as a direct or indirect result of it. Wars do that. Even silly wars, like "The Great Futbol War" get people killed.

The people who appear in this story are/were real people. The events set forth in this story took place, but perhaps not precisely as they are described, nor in the exact sequence in which they are related. In view of this, "The Great Futbol War" is properly described as "fact-ion," which places it somewhere between "fact" and "fiction." To further clarify the term, O.Henry wrote "fiction"; Truman Capote wrote "faction"; newspaper reporters, hopefully, always write "facts."

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LORENZO DEE BELVEAL
Economist, Journalist, Author

Born: August 15, 1918 - Idaho
Public Schools: Boise, Idaho
American University, Washington, D.C.

Management: National Association of Manufacturers
Principal: Belveal & Company (Consulting firm)
Commodities Press (Publishing company)

Mr. Belveal is the world's most widely published author on commodity markets, with five volumes under his imprimatur. He created the Registration Examination that all Commodity Solicitors must pass to be licensed to trade on Regulated Commodity markets.

He has served as economic consultant to some of the world's most distinguished commercial firms, as well as governments.

As a correspondent, he has lived, worked and traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and Asia. Although he no longer accepts "foreign correspondent" assignments or contracts, he continues to monitor the economies with which he is familiar. He keeps his international press credentials current; and writes occasional business and economic reports, as time permits and he feels them to be justified.

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