Neruda

Thanks for understanding the drama of my homeland, which is, like Pablo Neruda would say, a silent Vietnam; there are no occupying troops, nor powerful planes clouding the clean skies of my land, but we're under financial blockade, we have no credit, we can't buy spare parts, we have no means to buy food and we need medicine...

Pablo Neruda was Chile's ambassador to France in 1971.

In 1971, Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in literature.

Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

"You can cut off all the flowers, but you can't prevent spring from coming," said the great poet Pablo Neruda.