Cover of ‘González Videla, el laval de la America Latina: Breve biografía de un traidor’. Mexico Cit

Cover of ‘González Videla, el laval de la America Latina: Breve biografía de un traidor’. Mexico City, 1949 - Pablo Neruda. “The folleto is presented as a collection of brief pieces in a wide range of genres, from poems to essays to letters to testimonies, all denouncing Gabriel González Videla. Neruda was, at the time, a Communist Party senator and member of the Communist Party of Chile. Videla was a presidential candidate representing the Radical Party and asked Neruda to be his campaign manager. Once in office, Videla turned against the Communist Party, violently repressing a Communist-led miner’s strike. Neruda disassociated from Videla, and began to publicly critique him in speeches, which carried over into the form of the folleto. In this text, Neruda compares González to Pierre Laval, prime minister of collaborationist France during German occupation in WWII.”Source: University of Utah -- source link

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