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Banana massacre
See also: Banana massacre One of the most notorious strikes by United Fruit workers broke out on
12 November 1928 on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, near
Santa Marta. Historical estimates place the number of strikers somewhere between 11,000 and 30,000. On
6 December,
Colombian Army troops under the command of General Carlos Cortés Vargas opened fire on a crowd of strikers gathered in the central square of the town of
Ciénaga. The military justified this action by claiming that the strike was subversive and its organizers Communist revolutionaries. The number of people killed in that incident is disputed: General Cortés himself estimated that 47 people had died, but
Liberal Party congressman
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán claimed that the toll was much higher and that the army had acted under instructions from the United Fruit Company. The ensuing scandal contributed to
President Miguel Abadía Méndez's
Conservative Party being voted out of office in 1930, putting an end to 44 years of Conservative rule in Colombia. The first novel of
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio,
La Casa Grande, focuses on this event, and the author himself grew up in close proximity to the incident. The climax of
García Márquez's novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude is based on the events in Ciénaga, though the author himself has acknowledged that the death toll of 3,000 that he gives there is greatly inflated.