Latin America is very fond of the word hope. We like to be called the continent of hope. Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves candidates of hope.
Source: Memoirs, ch. 11, 1974; tr. 1977.
-- Pablo Neruda, (Jul 12 1904-1973), Chilean poet, diplomat, Marxist; He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and the Lenin Prize for Peace in 1953; wrote Residence on Earth-Nobel, 1971.