{"id":19120,"date":"2013-01-03T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T23:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T06:33:44","slug":"la-united-fruit-co-pablo-neruda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/?p=19120","title":{"rendered":"La United Fruit Co. – Pablo Neruda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lean este poema sobre la United Fruit Company de Pablo Neruda. Aunque lo escribi\u00f3 hace muchas d\u00e9cadas, su efecto y sus descripciones siguen teniendo relevancia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The United Fruit Co.<\/strong> – Pablo Neruda<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuando son\u00f3 la trompeta, estuvo
todo preparado en la tierra,
y Jehova reparti\u00f3 el mundo
a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, y otras entidades:
la Compa\u00f1\u00eda Frutera Inc.
se reserv\u00f3 lo m\u00e1s jugoso,
la costa central de mi tierra,
la dulce cintura de Am\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bautiz\u00f3 de nuevo sus tierras
como \u201cRep\u00fablicas Bananas,???
y sobre los muertos dormidos,
sobre los h\u00e9roes inquietos
que conquistaron la grandeza,
la libertad y las banderas,
estableci\u00f3 la \u00f3pera bufa:
enajen\u00f3 los albedr\u00edos
regal\u00f3 coronas de C\u00e9sar,
desenvain\u00f3 la envidia, atrajo
la dictadora de las moscas,
moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,
moscas Car\u00edas, moscas Mart\u00ednez,
moscas Ubico, moscas h\u00famedas
de sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas borrachas que zumban
sobre las tumbas populares,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiran\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la Frutera desembarca,
arrasando el caf\u00e9 y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas el tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mientras tanto, por los abismos
azucarados de los puertos,
ca\u00edan indios sepultados
en el vapor de la ma\u00f1ana:
un cuerpo rueda, una cosa
sin nombre, un n\u00famero ca\u00eddo,
un racimo de fruta muerta
derramada en el pudridero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH TRANSLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners,
it established an opera buffa:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit Company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number,
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written in 1950 as part of the Canto General.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lean este poema sobre la United Fruit Company de Pablo Neruda. Aunque lo escribi\u00f3 hace muchas d\u00e9cadas, su efecto y sus descripciones siguen teniendo relevancia. The United Fruit Co. – Pablo Neruda Cuando son\u00f3 la trompeta, estuvotodo preparado en la tierra,y Jehova reparti\u00f3 el mundoa Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, y otras entidades:la Compa\u00f1\u00eda Frutera Inc.se reserv\u00f3 lo m\u00e1s jugoso,la costa central de mi tierra,la dulce cintura de Am\u00e9rica. Bautiz\u00f3 de nuevo sus tierrascomo \u201cRep\u00fablicas Bananas,???y sobre los muertos dormidos,sobre los h\u00e9roes inquietosque conquistaron la grandeza,la libertad y las banderas,estableci\u00f3 la \u00f3pera bufa:enajen\u00f3 los albedr\u00edosregal\u00f3 coronas de C\u00e9sar,desenvain\u00f3 la envidia, atrajola dictadora de las moscas,moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,moscas Car\u00edas, moscas Mart\u00ednez,moscas Ubico, moscas h\u00famedasde sangre humilde y mermelada,moscas borrachas que zumbansobre las tumbas populares,moscas de circo, sabias moscasentendidas en tiran\u00eda. Entre las moscas sanguinariasla Frutera desembarca,arrasando el caf\u00e9 y las frutas,en sus barcos que deslizaroncomo bandejas el tesorode nuestras tierras sumergidas. Mientras tanto, por los abismosazucarados de los puertos,ca\u00edan indios sepultadosen el vapor de la ma\u00f1ana:un cuerpo rueda, una cosasin nombre, un n\u00famero ca\u00eddo,un racimo de fruta muertaderramada en el pudridero. ENGLISH TRANSLATION When the trumpet soundedeverything was prepared on earth,and Jehovah gave the worldto Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, and other corporations.The United Fruit Companyreserved for itself the most juicypiece, the central coast of my world,the delicate waist of America. It rebaptized these countriesBanana Republics,and over the sleeping dead,over the unquiet heroeswho won greatness,liberty, and banners,it established an opera buffa:it abolished free will,gave out imperial crowns,encouraged envy, attractedthe dictatorship of flies:Trujillo flies, Tachos fliesCarias flies, Martinez flies,Ubico flies, flies sticky withsubmissive blood and marmalade,drunken flies that buzz overthe tombs of the people,circus flies, wise fliesexpert at tyranny. With the bloodthirsty fliescame the Fruit Company,amassed coffee and fruitin ships which put to sea likeoverloaded trays with the treasuresfrom our sunken lands. Meanwhile the Indians fallinto the sugared depths of theharbors and are buried in themorning mists;a corpse rolls, a thing withoutname, a discarded number,a bunch of rotten fruitthrown on the garbage heap. Written in 1950 as part of the Canto General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[57,3046,3047,3045,1037,285,3043,3044],"class_list":["post-19120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-america-latina","tag-coca-cola","tag-ford-motors","tag-jehova","tag-pablo-neruda","tag-poesia","tag-the-united-fruit-company","tag-transnacionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75431,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions\/75431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}