The banana massacre in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, is the strike of banana workers organized by José Aureliano Segundo. The plan was for banana plantation workers to come together and go on strike to protest inhumane working conditions. This also resembles 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 "...allowed the military to act as arbiter in the controversy, but no conciliatory effort was made." (Page 303). Then the workers sabotaged the plantation. “The workers, who had been content to wait until then, entered the forest with no weapons other than their work machetes and began carrying out sabotage.” (Page 303). In response to the government, they invited all the workers, more than 3,000 people, including José Arcadio Segundo, to meet in a conference with the plantation administration to reach an agreement. The meeting was a trap and very quickly the 3,000 workers found themselves surrounded....