Pinochet Killed Democracy, But Not Poetry in Chile

This year’s September 23 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Chilean poet  Pablo Neruda, whom Gabriel Garcia Marquez called “the greatest poet of the 20th century — in any language.” Both Neruda’s family and Manuel Araya, his personal assistant and driver, confirmed last February that Neruda was assassinated on orders of General Augusto More

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