One Hundred Years of Solitude

taken by surprise as it slept,
abandoned Riohacha. He
established his headquarters
there and proclaimed total
war against the regime. The
first message he received
from the government was a
threat to shoot Colonel
Gerineldo Márquez within
forty-eight hours if he did not
withdraw with his forces to
the eastern frontier. Colonel
Roque Carnicero, who was
his chief of staff then, gave