tics in general. Another event that would influence his work was the prevalent banana industry and the massacre of 1928, that has to do with the exportation of banana and coffe. Although coffee is generally considered Colombia's main export, for the first few decades of the twentieth century, bananas were also of crucial importance to the economy. Garcia Marquez would later incorporate the incident in One Hundred Years of Solitude .The next significant event that would eventually affect his writing was a period of time that he himself would live through, a horrible period of time called la violencia, or "the Violence," which was a period in which Columbia face so many difficulties, the “Guerrillas”,...
