One Hundred Years of Solitude

This is a regime of wretches,
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
would comment when he saw
the barefoot policemen armed
with wooden clubs pass. We
fought all those wars and all
of it just so that we didnt have
to paint our houses blue.
When the banana company
arrived, however, the local
functionaries were replaced
by dictatorial foreigners
whom Mr. Brown brought to
live in the electrified chicken