... massacre of the workers 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 ... of each of the Buendia males in "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The most common form of corruption comes from the drive for power, which in turn result in hideous acts committed by the Buendia males. Col...

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