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This sort of opposition was naturally to be expected, but resistance arose from other, somewhat unexpected, quarters. A great many of Chile's middle-class professionals joined in the protest against the Popular Unity government. In President Allende's last days, the Chilean Medical Association endorsed the middle-class work stoppage which was crippling his government. One wonders what Allende, himself a doctor, thought as his fellow doctors helped strangle socialism in Chile...
...personal example: I was the college leader of a group called Forward; it was the most vigorous group on the Left. One day it was proposed that the group Forward sign a manifesto--I am speaking of the year 1931--calling for the creation in Chile of soviets of workers, peasants, soldiers and students. I said then it was madness, that there was not any possibility, that this was a great mistake and that I didn't want, as a student, to sign something that tomorrow, as a professional, I could not accept...
...railroad worker, Neruda (real name: Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto) was born in Parral, a small agricultural town in southern Chile. He started writing poetry at the age of eight, and persisted even though his book-hating father once destroyed his notebooks...
...eminent politician who was a Communist Party candidate for President of Chile in 1970, Neruda served as Chile's Ambassador to France from March 1971 until last February. With royalties from the millions of copies of his books sold round the world, he was able to buy homes in Santiago, Valparaiso and the beach resort area of Isla Negra. Yet for all his bourgeois tastes, Neruda remained a convinced if not always convincing Marxist. He was a friend of Allende's and perhaps his leading propagandist...
...wake of the coup that ousted Allende's government, there were rumors in Chile that Neruda had been arrested, and even executed. In fact, he had been moved shortly after the coup to a private clinic in Santiago for treatment of cancer, and he later died of heart failure. Shortly before his death, Neruda's rambling house in Santiago was ransacked, his books and papers were burned. The new military government denied responsibility and vowed to arrest the "vandals" who had done the ransacking. At week's end, none had been caught...