It may come as no surprise that a country as deeply polarized by its recent history as Chile is also at war over the relevance of its preëminent poet, Pablo Neruda.
But the difficulty in reaching a consensus about the poet is the result of efforts coming not from opposing political camps but from within the left
The former is Chile's formidable feminist movement; the latter is led by the Communist Party-which Neruda was a longtime member of and which is now part of the governing coalition-and by some of his nephews and nieces, who are determined to prove that the poet was assassinated by the dictatorship.
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