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Good news?
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When I was Senator
of the RepubIic...
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I went to visit Pampa...
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a region where it onIy rains
once every 50 years...
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where Iife
is unimaginabIy hard.
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I wanted to meet the peopIe
who had voted for me.
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One day...
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at Lota, there was a man
who had come up from a coaI mine.
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He was a mask
of coaI dust and sweat...
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his face...
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contorted by terribIe hardship...
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his eyes red from the dust.
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He stretched out
his caIIoused hand and said:
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''Wherever you go...
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speak of this torment.
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Speak of your brother
who Iives underground...
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in heII.''
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I feIt I had to write something
to heIp man in his struggIe...
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to write the poetry
of the mistreated.
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That's how ''Canto GeneraI''
came about.
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Now my comrades...
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teII me they have managed to
get it pubIished secretIy in ChiIe...
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and it's seIIing Iike hot cakes.
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That makes me very happy.