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.
Santiago de Chile, Feb 20 (EFE). – A Santiago Court of Appeals decided to reopen the investigation into the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which occurred 12 days after the coup led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973, the Nobel laureate’s family, the plaintiff in the case, told EFE. “The investigation has not been exhausted …
The First Chamber of the Appeals Court of Santiago ordered the reopening of the investigation into the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, which occurred
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