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Mexico City mayoral candidate Santiago Taboada quoted the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on social media recently: “They can cut all the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.”

And though he no longer calls me at work to recite Neruda, the dude and I still enjoy a margarita together every now and then.

The long-stated official position has been that Neruda died of complications from prostate cancer, but his driver argued for decades that he was poisoned.

The opening ceremony also celebrated two of the country’s most famous poets, Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral.

In response to his claim, Neruda's remains were exhumed in 2013 and subjected to forensic tests.