From the Heights of Machu Picchu

In Pablo Neruda' s poem, he addresses the death of the Inca Civilization. On the Heights of Machu Picchu, he stands among a graveyard if an eradicated people by the hands of the Spanish Colonials. The year is 1966 and Chili stands on a razor's edge between suppression or equality. Pablo empathizes with the Inca's and asks for their suppressed rage to "speak through [his] speech, and through [his] blood". Pablo is clearly calling out to the people of Chili, and calling to their attention the same suppression that destroyed the Inca's now exist through Chilean politics.