The mystery of Pablo Neruda’s death

Half a century after his death and 12 years after allegations first surfaced that he was murdered on the orders of General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, the death of Chile’s most famous poet, Pablo Neruda, remains a mystery. His death has been investigated for more than a decade, but so far there are no clear conclusions. Medical examiners in Canada, Denmark and elsewhere have searched the poet’s remains in an attempt to determine what killed him, but have been unable to provide a definitive answer. Meanwhile, the man who first claimed the poet was murdered, Neruda’s former driver and personal assistant, Manuel Araya died in June this year, aged 77, without ever seeing the end of the case. “The case must be cleared,” Neruda’s nephew Rodolfo Reyes told the BBC in a recent interview. “The ball is in the court of the judge investigating the case and we are all waiting for him to make a statement,” he added. Neruda, […]
Source: News Beast

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