Neruda had been preparing to flee into exile in Mexico to lead the resistance against the Pinochet regime when he died in hospital just 12 days after the coup
Rape culture can lodge even within a progressive project, as the example of Pablo Neruda shows
Pablo Neruda was that rare thing – a public poet, and a great one, held in deep affection by every layer of Chilean society.
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was long thought to have succumbed to cancer but his driver claims he was murdered by the Augusto Pinochet regime.