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Pablo Neruda
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In 1939, Pablo Neruda was appointed as a special consul in Paris, a role he used to facilitate the migration of many Spanish Republican refugees to Chile. These individuals had fled to France following their defeat in the Spanish Civil War, and Neruda actively supervised their relocation to his home country.1