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Old Time Farm Crime: The Banana Massacre - Modern Farmer

31.7.14

Old Time Farm Crime: The Banana Massacre - Modern Farmer: The massacre took center stage in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1967 masterwork “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” The recently deceased and monumentally lauded writer said he was inspired by the stories his grandmother told him about living in the Magdalena region of Colombia on the country’s northern coast, known as the banana zone for its main agricultural product. At the time he wrote the novel there was little interest and no serious historical studies on the banana workers’ strike that began in November 1928 and culminated in the massacre the next month and subsequent crackdown by the government.

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