Colonel Aureliano Buendia was promoted 32 Macondo and lost wars. He had seventeen children of different mothers. Arcadio became the cruelest rulers in Macondo until Ursula stepped avoiding the shooting of several men and releasing prisoners and so she began to rule the people. Pietro Crespi and Amaranta cultivated a deep friendship. When he proposes to her she rejects him and he sinks into suicidal grief and to the dismay of Ursula and family who do not understand the rejection of Amaranta. Arcadio, not knowing it was his mother Pilar Veal, was attracted to her. But she, without confessing the truth and in the darkness of the night, took him to bed Santa Sofia de la Piedad with whom he went to live and had three sons, Aureliano Segundo, José Arcadio Segundo (twins) and Remedios the Beauty . Arcadio continued to commit abuses and misusing public funds and he was shot.
