Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died of poisoning, study suggests.
Rodolfo Reyes, Neruda's nephew, was the one who released the conclusions of the analysis.
247 - A study of the remains of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) revealed that the Nobel laureate in Literature died after being poisoned. The information was released by the family this Monday (13). There has always been suspicion about the cause of the artist's death, but the official position was that the writer died from cancer. Rodolfo Reyes, Neruda's nephew, was the one who released the conclusions of the analysis. The study on the poet's death will be published this Wednesday (15), a report showed. Globe
Officially, Neruda died of prostate cancer at the age of 69 on September 23, 1973, 12 days after the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende, with whom the writer was close.
According to Reyes, tests indicated the presence of a large quantity of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria in Neruda's body, which would be indicative of poisoning. "We found the bullet that killed Neruda, and it was in his body. Who fired it? We will find out soon, but there is no doubt that Neruda was killed by the direct intervention of a third party," Reyes told the EFE news agency.
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