Posts Tagged ‘Salvador Allende’

Let me explain a few things…

Pablo Neruda is “the greatest poet of the twentieth century–in any language.” said Gabriel García Márquez Pablo and Gabo Explico algunas cosas (Let me Explain a Few Things), a poem written in fiery rage against what Franco’s troops had done to Madrid “And one morning, everything was burning” , is where Neruda traced his own […]


And his song lives on…

COMPAÑERO VICTOR JARA? !Presente! Hasta cuando? ¡¡¡Hasta siempre!!! “Silence and screams are the end of my song” Victor Jara   I lived through the Allende years before the military junta seized power in Chile on September 11, 1973. The next day, along with countless others, my brother, some friends and I were arrested and led […]