The workers in Magdalena weren't asking for revolution. They wanted Sunday off and to be paid in money, not coupons. United Fruit said no. The Colombian government said no. Then General Cortés Vargas gave them 5 minutes to leave the plaza. When they didn't, the army fired. The bodies went on trains to the sea. For decades the official story was: "There were no dead." Until a politician held up a child's skull in congress, and a novelist made the world remember.