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  CHILE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chile is the longest (N-S) country in the world (over 4,200km), and also claims a large section of Antarctica as part of its territory.
Chile controls Easter Island, the easternmost island of Polynesia, which it incorporated to its territory in 1888, and Robinson Crusoe Island, some 400 km from the mainland, in the Juan Fern?ez archipelago.
Chile is an active member of the UN family of agencies and participates in UN peacekeeping activities.
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 Parral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Parral For the Chilean city, see Parral, Chile Parral is a town in ghost town.
Parral, Chile Parral is a city in 1904.
Parral, Ohio Parral is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 241.
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 Pablo Neruda. Who is Pablo Neruda? What is Pablo Neruda? Where is Pablo Neruda? Definition of Pablo Neruda. Meaning of ...
Neruda studied French and education at the University of Chile.
He was an anarchist for a while, but later joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1945.
He also ran for president of Chile once, but stepped out of the race to give his support to Salvador Allende.
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 AlterEgo's reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, on July 12 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile.
Chile is a country of startling contrasts and extreme beauty, with attractions ranging from the towering volcanic peaks of the Andes to the ancient forests of the Lake District.
Chile is justly famous as the location of Torres del Paine, considered by many to be the finest nature travel destinations in all of South America.
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 Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Literary experts agree that the poet's defining work was Canto General, an extensive work about the Americas that he wrote while living in hiding during 1948 and 1949, when he was persecuted by the government of Gabriel González Videla (1948-1952), which banned the Communist Party, for which Neruda had been elected senator.
He was instrumental in evacuating 2000 Spanish Republicans to Chile in 1939 after their defeat by Franco.
He nearly ran for president of Chile, but ended up giving his support to Salvador Allende who was inaugurated in 1970 as the first democratically elected Marxist head of state.
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 Pablo Neruda biography
Pablo Neruda, recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Parral, Chile.
Neruda was educated at the Instituto Pedagogico in Santiago and the University of Chile.
Pablo Neruda died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile in 1973.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Pablo Neruda
A political radical, Neruda became prominent in the Chilean Communist Party and served in the Chilean Senate from 1945 to 1948.
After the Communist Party was outlawed in Chile in 1948, Neruda and many others had to choose between arrest or exile.
From 1948 until Chile lifted its ban on Communism in 1952, he wrote and traveled in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Europe, and Mexico.
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 Financial Review: The communication of who we are   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pablo Neruda, a magnificent poet of Chile, of Latin America and, finally, of the Americas, well may be, in the words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language".
Neruda was born Neftalm Ricardo Reyes y Basualto in 1904 in Parral, central Chile.
The family moved to the frontier town of Temuco in southern Chile, where Neruda was raised in a land of powerful solitude, luxuriant nature and endless rain.
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 Pablo Neruda :: Information on the Spanish Poet Pablo Neruda
He was born on July 12, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile.
Parral is a small town that is about 300km outside of Santiago.
They have a setup of a Museum of Pablo Neruda at the three main places in Chile in which he lived in or at for a period of time.
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 Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His experience of the civil war and it's aftermath were a big factor in moving him away from an inwardfocused Romanticism and towards a more political perspective.
He nearly ran for president of Chile, but ended up giving his support to Salvador Allende who was inaugurated in 1970 as the firstdemocratically elected Marxist head of state.
Two days later, his funeral took place surrounded by military machine guns (the military coupagainst Allende's government was 12 days before), but nonetheless it turned into the first act of rebellion and publicdenunciation against Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose dictatorshiplasted until 1990.
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This was the incredible result reached by the analyses performed by forensic doctors of Cauquenes upon the wounds suffered by the Parral resident on his arms, chest and legs, and which were the subject of local and national media headlines yesterday, including EL CENTRO newspaper.
A homeowner said that she felt a commotion in her henhouse and found it odd, since at that time of night the hens were asleep.
Fourteen sheep died inexplicably last week, but that wasn't enough for two families of shepherds from Parral to make a formal report of the event, despite the fact that the animals' bodies were found torn and bloodied but without any traces of a predator that would have feasted on them.
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 Neruda, Pablo
In 1939 he was appointed special consul in Paris, where he supervised the migration to Chile of many defeated Spanish Republicans who had escaped to France.
He had returned to Chile in 1943, was elected a senator in 1945, and also joined the Communist Party.
In February 1948 he left Chile, crossing the Andes Mountains on horseback by night with the manuscript of Canto general in his saddlebag.
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 True Stone and Epitaph: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda - Reviewed by Gilbert Wesley Purdy - Eclectica Magazine v8n4
Chile is a land with a diversity of climates, and Parral is in the temperate-zone.
After another brief return to Chile, Neruda was named a special consul and returned to Paris in order to supervise the emigration to Chile of Spaniards who had been on the defeated Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
The poet was one of the few effective international voices that spoke for the poor in Chile, and throughout the world, and he strove to fulfill his responsibilities to the utmost.
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 Copper Canyon Press : Book Detail
Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile in 1904.
Shortly thereafter, when Chile's political climate took a sudden turn to the right, Neruda fled to Mexico, and lived as an exile for several years.
In 1970 he was appointed as Chile's ambassador to France, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 Colonia Dignidad :: Chile Sect Thrives Despite Criminal Charges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
PARRAL, Chile — The group's reclusive leader is accused of sexually abusing scores of young boys.
Even then, he was fleeing sexual abuse charges based on complaints by boys in an orphanage he administered in Germany, though the Chilean government appears not to have been aware of those charges at the time.
Courts ruled that the group's leaders cannot be banished from Chile until pending charges against them have been resolved and, if they are found guilty, their prison sentences served.
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 parral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Once a bustling center for silver mining, it is now largely a ghost town.
A silver mining boomtown in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, Parral was almost completely abandoned in the early 1930's (although the surrounding district continues to be mined for silver and base metals).
It is noted as the place of death of several historical figures:
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 Parral on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Proyectan probar en Parral plan de penal autosuficiente.(Los Estados)
Mercedes Fernandez Barra, photographed on Thursday, April 17, 2003, in Parral, Chile, heads a group of relatives of 48 missing political prisoners in her area, less than 20 miles from the German "Colo
Homenaje a Neruda El poeta nicaragüense Ernesto Cardenal habla con el escritor argentino Ernesto Sabato (D) en el tren que.
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 The Guardian
Juan Garrido-Salgado Neruda was born in Parral in Chile on July 12, 1904.
They are part of his homage to Luis Emilio Recabarren, the founder of Chile's Communist Party and the most influential figure in the history of the early labour movement in the country.
Father of Chile Recabarren, Chile's offspring, father of Chile, our father, in your construction, in your line forged in lands and tempests, the strength of the victorious days to come is born.
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 Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto was born in the agricultural region of Parral, Chile, in 1904.
From 1924 to 1926, Neruda attended the University of Chile.
He was permitted to return to Chile in 1953 and put forth as the Communist party nominee for the presidency of Chile in 1970, though his nomination was subsequently withdrawn in the interest of maintaining a leftist political alliance.
www.rarebooks.nd.edu /collections/manuscripts/latin_american/southern_cone_literary/neruda   (648 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Fans celebrate Neruda centenary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Poetry fans in Chile and all around the world are celebrating 100 years since the birth of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, on 12 July.
Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971, was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in July 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile.
Neruda returned to Chile in 1943, but four years later was forced to go into hiding as he had protested against the policy of President Gonzalez Videla towards striking miners.
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 Pablo Neruda: Definition and links.
Pablo Neruda is the pen name of the Chilean poet Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral[?], Chile.
His mother died soon after he was born and his father was a railway employee.
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 Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Born on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile, Pablo Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953.
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of two of his classic works in timeless translations: Residence on Earth and The Captain's Verses, both translated by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual.
Our bilingual edition is seen by many as the most intimate and passionate volume of Neruda's love poetry, capturing all the erotic energy of a new love.
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 IFCNR - FISHERIES COMMITTEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Catfish farming is an option Chile is taking a hard look at to provide economically stressed rice farmers an alternative crop.
Catfish thrive in shallow, slow flowing fresh water and hold promise of a lucrative market in the United States where fresh fillets are said to be fetching $4.50 to $5.00 per pound.
Participating in the enterprise are Fundacion Chile, Parral Electric Co-operative, LUZPAR Ltd. and the Chilean Fund for Innovation and Development, according to news reports.
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 Poetry: Pablo Neruda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was born in Parral, Chile, the son of a railroad worker.
But when he published letters attacking the policies of Videla, the President of Chile, he was forced into exile.
His vast literary output won many prizes and honors, although American readers found it difficult to separate his poetry from his politics, he was, at his prime, generally considered to be the greatest poet writing in Spanish.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that when Che fell in combat in the mountains of Bolivia, he was devotedly carrying a copy of Canto general in his backpack.
To commemorate the centenary of Neruda’s birth, Chile and the world are celebrating.
Book fairs on three continents are dedicated to him; his poetry has been re-edited in many languages; his life is recalled in books, magazines, movies, radio and television programs, and dramatic interpretations of his many poems and theater works, especially El cartero, based on the novel by Chilean Antonio Skáarmeta.
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 John Ralston Saul awarded the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour
The Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour was created by the government of Chile to celebrate the centennial of Neruda's birth.
Often referred to as the "poet of enslaved humanity", Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, the son of a railroad worker.
Shortly after leaving college, Neruda joined the Chilean foreign service to begin a distinguished career as consul and ambassador at a variety of posts around the world and as a politician committed to social reform.
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 Pablo Neruda Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I was born in Parral, Chile in the year 1907.
I escaped from Chile and entered Argentina to hide, but President Videla contacted the Argentinean government, and they also were searching for me. To be free I needed to escape from South America.
He was the General of Chile’s army, and with that power, he killed President Allende and turned Chile into a dictatorship.
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In 1939, Neruda was appointed consul for the Spanish emigration, residing in Paris, and, shortly afterwards, Consul General in Mexico, where he rewrote his Canto General de Chile, transforming it into an epic poem about the whole South American continent, its nature, its people and its historical destiny.
In 1943, Neruda returned to Chile, and in 1945 he was elected senator of the Republic, also joining the Communist Party of Chile.
Due to his protests against President González Videla's repressive policy against striking miners in 1947, he had to live underground in his own country for two years until he managed to leave in 1949.
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 neruda.html
He was born July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile.
Neruda served as a diplomat in Latin America but after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was recalled to Chile because of his outspoken political views.
When he returned to Chile, he was elected to the Senate and joined the Communist Party while continuing to write prolifically.
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 The Scottish Poetry Library
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in 1904, in Parral, Chile.
After studying at the University of Chile, Neruda was appointed as a diplomat and his postings included Burma and India, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Mexico.
On his return to Chile he was elected to the Chilean Senate, but was accused of sedition and forced into hiding and then exile in 1949.
www.spl.org.uk /poets_a-z/neruda.html   (388 words)

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