The banana massacre in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, is the banana workers' strike organized by José Aureliano Segundo. The plan was for banana plantation workers to gather and go on strike to protest the inhumane working conditions. This also parallels the act of Colonel Aureliano Buendia who also fought for the rights of the working class during his generation. Macondo was placed under martial law, which "... gave the army the functions of arbiter in the dispute, but no effort at conciliation was made." (Page 303). Then the workers sabotaged the plantation. “The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no weapons other than their work machetes and began to sabotage the sabotage.” (Page 303). In reaction to the government, they invite all the workers, more than 3,000 people, including José Arcadio Segundo, to gather in a conference with the plantation administration to reach an agreement. The meeting was a ruse and soon the 3,000 workers surrounded themselves...