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...have no part of this crime." --Pablo Neruda, Canto General...
...with all these interesting and important efforts before them, the generals found time to exempt one Leftist, Communist poet Pablo Neruda, from the general proscription. Neruda, they explained, was a national treasure. So when he died of cancer Sunday night, the generals sent condolences to his widow...
...Neruda would have scorned such special treatment, as he scorned all the actions of the people one of his poems denounced, with passion and accuracy, as the dictatorship of the flies. Neruda never claimed to inhabit a special world for poets divorced from the struggles and the suffering of ordinary people. The son of a railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda...
...more years Neruda wrote poetry, read poetry to villagers, and propagandized for socialism and peace. For a short time in 1970 he was the Communist candidate for president of Chile, and then Popular Unity's first Ambassador to France. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...wanted men, Socialist Party Secretary-General Carlos Altamirano, was said to have been "accidentally" killed during the fighting. There was yet another report that at least 3,000 people had been put aboard a prison ship off the coast. Among the alleged internees: Communist Poet Pablo Neruda, 79, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, and Chile's former ambassador to Paris...