Colonel Aureliano Buendia

Colonel Aureliano Buendia is the second son of José Arcadio Buendia and Ursula. Aureliano often cried in the womb and was born with open eyes. Most of all loneliness affected the Colonel. He was so incapable of expressing his feelings that it was easier for him to go to the war while leaving his sons from different mothers. He was so used to the loneliness that he asked to draw around him a three-meter circle so that no one approached him. Aureliano had his inclination to intuition from childhood; he felt the approach of danger and important events. These abilities he inherited from his father, as well as thoughtfulness and philosophical nature. Since childhood, he studied jewelry. When the time came, he married the young daughter of the Alcalde Macondo, Remedios, but she died before she reached adulthood, being pregnant with twins. After the outbreak of the civil war, the colonel joined the liberal party and rose to the post of commander-in-chief of the revolutionary forces of the Atlantic coast, but refused to accept the rank of general to overthrow the Conservative Party. For two decades he raised 32 armed uprisings and all of them lost. Having lost all interest in the war, he signed a peace treaty and then shoots himself in the mouth in order not to meet his future, but because of his failure, the bullet does not reach the goal. After this, the colonel returns to his home in Macondo. From his brother's mistress - Pilar Turner, he had a son Aureliano Jose, and from 17 other women, whom he was brought during military campaigns - 17 sons. In his old age, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was engaged in the senseless manufacture of goldfish (remelting them from time to time and doing again) in honest accord with loneliness and died near the tree under which his father Jose Arkadio Buendia sat for many years tied to the bench.