WINNIPEG, Neruda’s ship
“Let the critics erase all my poetry, if you like.
But this poem, which I remember today, cannot
nobody delete it”
– Pablo Neruda
This is how Pablo Neruda referred to what he considered one of his greatest milestones: chartering a ship from France, the Winnipeg, so that more than 2,000 refugees from the Spanish Civil War could go to Chile in search of a new life.
Neruda, appointed by the Chilean government as Special Consul for Spanish Immigration in France, and also counting on the complicity of the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Abraham Ortega, carried out this mission, which was accomplished when the Winnipeg arrived in Valparaíso on September 3, 1939.
This theatrical production aims to be a song to freedom and hope, giving voice, from a current perspective, to the history of all these exiles who call themselves “The Children of Neruda”, recovering a historical fact that, unlike others similar, seem to have been left waving, lost, in the fragile Spanish memory.
The Winnipeg’s journey is part of the silenced history of our country. The risk that this silence turns into forgetfulness or, even worse, distortion, is everyone’s business.
Winnipeg starts from darkness, horror and human cruelty but ends up illuminating a path where hope for a better world is possible.
2024-01-08 00:21:27
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