Chilean authorities decided this week to launch an investigation into the Sept. 23, 1973, death of Communist poet Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Literature Nobel Prize, who is believed to have been poisoned by the military regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) less than a fortnight after seizing power in a bloody coup d état. At that time, Neruda, 69, was said to be suffering from prostate cancer, but it is believed he was not terminally ill by then.
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The Chilean judiciary reopened the investigation into the mysterious death of poet Pablo Neruda. On Tuesday, a Chilean appeals court in Santiago ordered the reopening of the probe into the death of the leftist poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda in 1973.
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