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Whom did Pablo Neruda meet while serving as consul in Buenos Aires?
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Pablo Neruda
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While serving as the Chilean consul in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1933, Pablo Neruda met the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. At the time, García Lorca was traveling in Argentina, and the two became close friends, with García Lorca becoming an enthusiastic defender of Neruda’s poetry.1