Marc Fennell

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1,712 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Sep

Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 5.

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No One Saw It Coming · The mythical football war · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Um I'm gonna assume you have an atlas in front of you right now because you must carry that with you everywhere. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So El Salvador is a tiny like sliver of a country nestled into the west of Honduras, which on a map, like it's it's almost like Honduras is towering over El Salvador. voice-verified

got a lot of poor people under the thumb of these coffee oligarchs. voice-verified

But around about this time, voice-verified

Everybody looks north and they see in Cuba an armed uprising of unhappy, dissatisfied poor people overthrows voice-verified

So the El Salvador establishment starts to really fear this idea of an uprising, just like it they've seen in Cuba. voice-verified

Then they've got this other issue, this massive towering neighbor, the much bigger voice-verified

El Salvador's oligarchies, but they mostly kept the money in El Salvador, whereas in Honduras voice-verified

A lot of the good money is just going over to the voice-verified

so we've got big coffee on the side of El Salvador, then big banana slash. voice-verified

Big cow in Honduras. voice-verified

And this is why we got the guy from the London School of Economics. voice-verified

Now the thing is between these two countries, um, El Salvador and Honduras, the the border is voice-verified

Indeed, by nineteen sixty-nine, there's about three hundred thousand Salvadorans in Honduras. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So El Salvador, a lot of people that don't have land don't necessarily have jobs that go with that land. voice-verified

Whereas on the other side you've got Honduras where there's a lot of land, not necessarily good farming land, but it's still land. voice-verified

And we're seeing a lot of people moving across this kind of porous border. voice-verified

How do Hondurans feel about the sheer number of Salvadorians just passing through this border, working on these plantations? voice-verified

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