Neruda and support of Chile 

Neruda had returned to Chile in 1937 and had been isolated in the beautiful southern country, where he continued writing his poems. 

 

However, the tragic news of the Spanish emigration, overcrowded camps in France, came to Neruda, who abandons his literary determined to do something that would assist the Spanish refugees. 

Moreover, in those years was already clear the imminent outbreak of the Second World War, given the behavior of Nazi Germany threatened Europe whose power directly. From falling into Nazi hands, the fate of the Spanish refugees prisoners in French concentration camps had been sinister.

The long trip to Chile 

The "Winnipeg" moves slowly with all its lights on, on the Gironde estuary, away from Trompeloup - Pauillac. Speed ​​up your ride when going offshore. Days later passed near the Azores, Portuguese island, heading for the Guadalupe Island, a French island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, in order to replenish water, food and fuel. 

 

Inside the ship, in the early days of sailing, deploys a gigantic work of organization, the refugees met in a disciplined manner. It could not be otherwise, given what they meant more than 2,000 people, men, women and children, crowded into the old freighter, hastily fitted tight wooden bunks, makeshift toilets, temporary kitchens, kitchens running at peak day and night, precarious ventilation systems, warehouses converted into bedrooms, etc, etc.

"The children of Neruda": the new Chilean 

Unable for years to return to Spain, immigrants are going deeper and deeper rooting Chilean society that welcomes them warmly.

As in all human activities, luck was different for immigrants. There were some who were very prominent from the start and they found work the day after his arrival in Santiago de Chile, others who suffered hardship and only after a while managed to settle in suitable jobs and raise families in Chile.

70 years of unforgettable poem by Neruda 

"That critique delete all my poetry, if you like. But this poem, now remember, you can not erase anyone," wrote Pablo Neruda. The poem had ship name, Winnipeg, which he sent to Chile in September 1939 with 2,500 Republicans rescued from French concentration camps. They just met the feat 70 years. The youngest passenger, Elena Castedo, and the Chilean ambassador in Spain, Gonzalo Martner, shared with the country the memories of that great rescue operation.

Santiago de Chile, November 30 (PL) The remains of the poet and Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda, waiting for funding to be examined in Europe, told Prensa Latina reliable sources.

 

 

According to information received by Prensa Latina in Havana, a European laboratory launched an initiative which is awaiting a response from the Government of Chile, in order to finance the operation.

 

 

Impatience poet fan groups who want the truth about his death be clarified is that with the passage of time scientists of the Old Continent could lose interest in pursuing the case.

 

 

In early November, a note from the Ministry of the Interior of Chile said that "it is clearly possible and highly probable third-party intervention in the death of Pablo Neruda."