Editing Banana Massacre (section)


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The '''bananeras massacre''' was a massacre of the workers of the US banana company [[United Fruit Company]] at the hands of the Colombian army, which occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928 in the municipality of Ciénaga, Magdalena Colombia.

An undefined number (approximately 1,800) of workers died after the government of conservative Miguel Abadía Méndez decided to end a month-long strike organized by the union of workers seeking to guarantee better working conditions.<ref>{{Quote web|url=https://www.opinioncaribe.com/2017/02/15/huelga-huelga-huelga/|title=Strike, strike, strike!|dateaccess=September 16, 2020|surname=Caribe|name =Opinion|language=en}}</ref>

On November 28 of that year, the largest strike in Colombian history had broken out. More than 25,000 plantation workers refused to cut down bananas produced by the [[United Fruit Company]] and by domestic growers under contract with the company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www .notimerica.com/sociedad/noticia-masacre-bananeras-when-strike-was-not-right-20161205072937.html|título=The massacre of the banana plantations, when the strike was not a right|accessdate=September 16, 2020 |surname=Press|name=Europa|date=December 5, 2016|website=www.notimerica.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/ world/usa-and-canada/expert-explains-what-happened-in-the-massacre-of-the-banana-161302|título='The petitions of banana workers were not radical'|access date=September 16 of 2020|surname=Time|name=Publishing House El|date=December 13, 2017|website=El Tiempo|language=Spanish}}</ref>

Despite such pressure, the United Fruit Company and the strikers were unable to reach an agreement, and the army intervened, gunning down several workers and wounding others who were peacefully protesting. 

Authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, in his work '' One Hundred Years of Solitude ''; Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, in his novel ''  The Big House ''; and the playwright Carlos José Reyes, have portrayed the event, ensuring that the events are preserved in Colombian culture.