One Hundred Years of Solitude

wore civilian clothes,
replaced the soldiers with
unarmed policemen, enforced
the amnesty laws, and helped
a few families of Liberals
who had been killed in the
war. He succeeded in having
Macondo raised to the status
of a municipality and he was
therefore its first mayor, and
he created an atmosphere of
confidence that made people
think of the war as an absurd
nightmare of the past. Father