You specialists try to determine whether the poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned
The expert report by international experts to try to conclude what was the reason of the death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who died in a clinic in Santiago 23 September 1973, a few days after the coup to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende, will be released in october.
Since 2011 a judicial investigation is open to determine whether whoever won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, died of prostate cancer that he suffered from or was poisoned by agents of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, EFE news agency reported.
To bring the truth to light, a dozen foreign experts from Denmark, U.S, Spain and Canada, In addition, several Chilean experts will meet in a panel in Santiago to discuss the results they have obtained in their investigations and will draw up their conclusions., that they will deliver to the judge in charge of the case, Mario Carroza.
The family, who joined the investigation in 2012, accepted for years the version that Neruda had died of cancer. But in 2011, the Communist Party filed a complaint to have his death investigated, based on statements by Manuel Araya, former chauffeur of the poet, who claimed he had been poisoned.
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