This footage was filmed and produced 24 September 2023.

Authorities, companions and friends of the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize in Literature Pablo Neruda commemorated this Saturday the 50th anniversary of his death, which occurred 12 days after Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état, which overthrew the government of former socialist president Salvador Allende (1970). -1973).

In an emotional event held at the writer's House Museum, located in the coastal town of Isla Negra, about 100 kilometers west of Santiago, about 250 people remembered the work and the cultural and political legacy of the writer, Communist Party activist and friend. near Allende.

“Allende's death and the tragedy that covered the country darkened his spirit in those last days of his life, which we remember today. It is a great absence and the best way to honor him is to re-read his books and remember his work,” said the Minister of Education, Nicolás Cataldo, in his speech.

Neruda died on September 23, 1973 at the Santa María Clinic in Santiago, one day before going into exile in Mexico, where he could have become the great opponent of the dictator.

“He was the object of political violence in life and post-mortem because his books were censored, their circulation was prohibited and public and private libraries were subjected to spurious, burning and silencing to cause his social death and erase him from the history of the country as a political figure and cultural due to the fact of being communist and an unavoidable reference for social justice,” said Fernando Insulza, spokesperson for the Neruda Foundation, organizer of the event.