One Hundred Years of Solitude

content to wait until then,
went into the woods with no
other weapons but their
working machetes and they
began to sabotage the
sabotage. They burned
plantations and commissaries,
tore up tracks to impede the
passage of the trains that
began to open their path with
machine-gun fire, and they
cut telegraph and telephone
wires. The irrigation ditches
were stained with blood. Mr.