Pablo Neruda by Monica Brown6/28/2023 ![]() Thousands lined the roads and tossed flowers on the poet’s flag-draped casket as it passed. Nearly two decades later, Chile’s new, democratically elected president asked his “special events” director, Javier Egana, to supervise Neruda’s government-sponsored exhumation and reburial in Isla Negra. ![]() The speeches at his graveside were the last act of public protest allowed by Chile’s new dictator, Gen. Soldiers ransacked one of Neruda’s homes, then surrounded the mourners at his funeral procession. Instead, Neruda was hastily interred in Chile’s capital, Santiago, when he succumbed to cancer two weeks after his friend Salvador Allende was deposed as president in a bloody 1973 coup. ![]() Famous for his love of the sea, Nobel-winning poet Pablo Neruda wrote in his landmark book “Canto General” that he wanted to rest for eternity next to his stone and wood cottages in this hamlet on the Pacific. ![]()
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