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Thirty-Nine Years of Silence

By Adam Williams


In the Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," owners of a foreign banana company arrive in the fictitious town of Macondo, cultivate plantations, employ locals, and abruptly depart years later, leaving behind only remnants of their hegemony throughout the deserted village. The Central Pacific town of Silencio, or Silence, can empathize with Macondo's tale. After years of profitable production from its regional banana plantations, the United Fruit Company... Read More »

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