Pablo Neruda

Salvador Allende was a socialist president of Chile in the 1960’s who was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. Rising wages produced a boom in consumerism and Chile had to rely on imports to meet demand. Chilean government was running out of foreign sources of aid which caused a lot of strikes in Chiles. Coup overthrew Allende’s presidency and Augusto Pinochet wad named president of Chile in September 1973. 

Pablo Neruda died in the hospital from prostate cancer in 1973. The day before he was going to move abroad because he was against Pinochet’s dicatorship was when he died and it is thought that Neruda was poisoned by Pinochet’s people. 

The opinion of the poetic voice in the two poems is that the United States exploits Latin America. The United Fruit Company who had a deep and long-lasting impact on the development of a lot of Latin American countries was in fact managed by the United States where they made a monopoly out of the fruit. The oil company that the United States controls extracts production of the world and that the United States militarizes the use of oil. 

Flies are the dictators of other countries This Banana Rebulic was attractive to these dictators because it abolished free will and gave out imperial crowns. 

The Standard oil company assassinated a president and took the land and exploited it for oil.