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What are the real historical comparisons based on One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude is a magical realistic work, although it is particularly magical, don't forget that it actually refers to the whole Latin American continent. True history is crucial.

1928 banana massacre: there is a Latin American proverb that is particularly reasonable: "It is too far from heaven and too close to the United States." The role of the United States in Latin America is a bit like British control over India. Britain established the East India Company in India (see Pirates of the Caribbean), and the United States established the United Fruit Company in Latin America. Many countries in Latin America call it "Banana Republic". Due to the collusion between the government and the United States, people's living conditions have not improved, and huge profits have actually been entering private pockets. The widening gap between the rich and the poor led to workers' protests and demonstrations. Just like human history is repeating itself, 1928, 1928 On February 6, 2008, when 3,000 workers demonstrated in Nana and Canada Railway Station, the government chose to suppress by force and solved all the problems by means of death. In three months, the government arrested and killed all the insiders involved, and finally admitted to killing only nine people. Although Marquez did not witness the catastrophe with his own eyes, he accurately described the terrible scene in other people's oral and historical documents: "The crowd was densely strafed by rows of machine guns, and the old man and children, mother and baby all fell in a circle like peeling onions." Jose Al-Cattiau, the only surviving fourth generation in One Hundred Years of Solitude, woke up alone in the banana massacre, leaving only countless remains and bodies around him, which were thrown into the sea like spoiled bananas. When history and literature meet again, the suffocating tragic effect is almost overwhelming.