In which novel does Gabriel García Márquez depict a banana company exploitation?

Gabriel García Márquez depicts banana-company exploitation in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Published in 1967, the novel follows several generations of the Buendía family in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo. Its magical-realist story blends invented events with recognizable elements of Latin American history, including civil wars, foreign investment, railways, labor conflict, and the arrival of a powerful banana company.

The company’s exploitation and the violent suppression of its workers are especially important in the novel’s later chapters. García Márquez’s fictional banana company is widely understood to echo the United Fruit Company and the 1928 Banana Massacre in Colombia, when troops fired on striking plantation workers near Ciénaga. The novel transforms that historical trauma into a haunting story of mass killing, denial, and collective forgetting.

Readers sometimes choose Leaf Storm because it is another García Márquez work set in Macondo. However, the banana-company episode belongs specifically to One Hundred Years of Solitude, his landmark 1967 novel.