One Hundred Years of Solitude

the firing squad had. They
would camp near the towns
and one of them, with a small
gold fish in his hand, would
go in disguise in broad
daylight to contact the
dormant Liberals, who would
go out hunting on the
following morning and never
return. When they saw
Riohacha from a ridge in the
mountains, General Victorio
Medina had been shot.
Colonel Aureliano Buendías