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El Salvador’s Revolutionary Poet, Roque Dalton | Ep 30 Stories of Resistance
Roque Dalton is considered one of El Salvador’s greatest writers of the 20th century.
His poems are pure art, mixing politics with poetry, blending verse and prose. Humor and reality. History and current events. Beautiful lines, alongside anger at the suffering plight of humanity. And above all that of the downtrodden and poor of El Salvador.
But Roque Dalton did not just write words. He lived them. He attended the world youth festival in Russia. He traveled, met and spoke out against injustices He was imprisoned. Escaped. He lived in Czechoslovakia. Exiled in Mexico. Exiled in Cuba. And…
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