[...] For his part raised a Alfredo Holguin campaign to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the slaughter of the banana, which will take place between May and December this year. The slaughter of the banana is an episode in the Colombian town of Cienaga, Magdalena Department, in 1928 when Colombia's armed forces opened fire on a mobilization of workers on strike against the company gringa Unite Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands) committed in funding paramilitaries in Urabá). The slaughter occurred on December 6, 1928 left more than three thousand dead, with blood baptize the nascent labor movement in Colombia. It is noteworthy that these tragic events were used as argument to the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. "
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