... is recalled through the memory of a child, which seems to undermine the horror of the Yankee exploitation. Colonel Lorenzo Gavilan leads the strikers into a brutal blood bath. The workers are slaughter and "become cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns."8 This also demonstrates another common theme in the "Boom ... , who all painstakingly dig through the trash looking for something to eat, something to sell, something to wear."18 The revolutionaries are forced to go into hiding at a old woman's house, which is characteriz...

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