Pablo Neruda: Revolutionary who wrote to the greatness of Latin American Peoples (+seeding)

Published at: 23/09/2025 08:51 AM

On September 23, 1973, in the midst of the political and social crisis unleashed in Chile, after the fascist coup against President Salvador Allende and the government of the Popular Unity, the great social fighter and poet Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto left, whom the world knew as: Pablo Neruda.

His parents were José del Carmen Reyes and Rosa Basoalto, who died of tuberculosis a month after the future poet was born, which caused his father to abandon the countryside and look for work as a worker in the dams of the port of Talcahuano and then drive a train carrying stones, in the region of Temuco, where Neruda wrote his first poems and in 1919, at only 15 years of age, he won third place in the Maule Flower Games, with his poem Ideal Night.

Twenty love poems and a desperate song appeared in 1924, bringing him international recognition. Later, when the Spanish civil war broke out, moved by it, Neruda committed himself to the republican movement, first in Spain and then in France, where he began to write Spain in his heart (1937). From there, his poetry was characterized by an orientation towards political and social issues, which reinforces his large book sales.

In 1972, for his great pen, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Lenin Peace Prize. His work includes 45 books, plus several compilations and anthologies that have been translated into more than 35 languages, and studied at major universities and literary research centers.

His last public appearance was on December 5, 1972, where the Chilean people paid homage to the poet at the National Stadium. And a year later, the unfortunate news of his death broke, when on September 19, he was urgently transferred from his house in Isla Negra to the Santa María Clinic in Santiago, where he died 4 days later at 10:30 at night.

Although investigations are still being carried out to determine the causes of his death, that September 23 Neruda flew high to meet and meet on a long morning, in addition to other great leaders, our Father of the Fatherland, Simon Bolivar, as he himself wrote in his poem A Song For Bolivar.

Mazo News Team