Decline of Liberal Party, Civil War Uprisings, and Corporate Colonialism

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The chapter explores the weakening of the liberal party in the book due to economic factors and contrasts between conservative and liberal beliefs. It covers the Colonel's unsuccessful uprisings in the civil war and the real-world dictatorship's ties to the Banana Massacre. The chapter also discusses a company symbolizing corporate colonialism in Macondo, its exploitative practices, and its role in a tragic workers' revolt.

This week, we return to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” to his friends) for the first time since our second-ever episode. This time around we get to dive deeper into “magical realism,” the sort of dreamy heightened reality that Marquez employs so successfully, and we also touch on the book’s relationship with Colombian history and our relationship with our own hometowns.

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