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Roque Dalton's name is hardly known in Britain but in Latin America his reputation as a poet is up there with the best. He was killed in 1975, aged only 38, murdered by his erstwhile comrades in one of El Salvador's guerilla movements.
Today he has become that country's posthumous national poet. Life, death, love and politics are the themes of his passionate, at times sarcastic, and image-laden works.
Fusilemos La Noche! (Let's Shoot The Night!), the new film about Dalton's life by the Austrian film maker Tina Leisch, is a more than fitting homage.
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