One of his friends tells him that he is "rotting alive" after he destroys the house of General Moncada's widow in a fit of anger.
One of his friends tells him that he is "rotting alive" after he destroys the house of General Moncada's widow in a fit of anger. He is the only member of his family incapable of seeing the ghost of his dead father, who was tied up under a chestnut tree. All of his seventeen children are slaughtered by his Conservative enemies by the end of the novel in which he appears. He was saved from the firing squad by timely orders from the government and resistance from his brother, the second Jose Arcadio Buendia. For ten points, name this resident of Macondo, a major character from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
One of his friends tells him that he is "rotting alive" after he destroys the house of General Moncada's widow in a fit of anger.
Colonel {Aureliano} Buendia (prompt on {Buendia})