strength for the oppressed. In addition to being the voice of the Chilean people, he’s also a proud militant of the communist party and senator, projecting his strong voice against the brutal anti-communist repression led by the president Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (Alfredo Castro).
Kirtney DeVera Ms. Talbott English 10 Honors 24 August 2016 Pablo Neruda: Biographical Research Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, commonly known by his pen name as Pablo Neruda, was born on July 12, 1904. Born in Parral, Chile, he was an only child, but his mother died a few weeks after his birth. His father, a railroad worker decided to move to Temuco where he remarried and had 2 kids. Graduating high school at the Men’s Lyceum of Temuco, Pablo has already published multiple poems including
such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political proclamations. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal color of hope. Pablo Neruda was born Richardo Eliecer Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile
Slavery in Latin America Chile History Before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th cent., the Araucanians had long been in control of the land in the southern part of the region; in the north, the inhabitants were ruled by the Inca empire. Diego de Almagro, who was sent by Francisco Pizarro from Peru to explore the southern region, led a party of men through the Andes into the central lowlands of Chile but was unsuccessful (1536) in establishing a foothold there. In 1540, Pedro de