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Thank you for understanding the drama of my country which is, as Pablo Neruda said, a silent Vietnam. There are no occupation troops nor powerful war planes clouding the open skies of my country, but we are economically blockaded, we have no international credit, we cannot buy machinery, we don't have enough to buy food, and we lack medicine. And in order to be able to defeat those who do these things to us, it is crucial that people understand who are their friends and who are their enemies...
...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...
...much reprinted poem called The Satraps, said to have been written by Neruda shortly before the coup, was released by a Cuban news agency staffer in Buenos Aires. The verse, which describes President Nixon and Junta Leader Augusto Pinochet as "hyenas ravening/ Our history," is a hoax. Apparently Buenos Aires leftists "updated" a Neruda poem from the 1950s, changing the names of Latin American Dictators Trujillo, Somoza and Carias to Nixon, Frei (Allende's predecessor as president) and Pinochet...
Died. Pablo Neruda, 69, Nobel-prizewinning Chilean poet and former ambassador (see THE WORLD...