Neruda to be EXHUMED Suspicion of Murder

Neruda be exhumed 40 years after his death

The body of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who died on September 23, 1973, 12 days after the coup of Augusto Pinochet, will be exhumed in the coming weeks, as the judge has determined that Mario Chariot in 2011 opened a judicial investigation to clarify the circumstances of the death of winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The news was announced  and confirmed hours later by the Pablo Neruda Foundation through a statement: "The Foundation has always expressed its willingness to cooperate with the investigation lead by  Chariot  and rely entirely on expertise that will be held with the utmost respect and care possible. It also hopes that the review to help clarify any doubts that may exist regarding the poet's death. "

The official history for nearly four decades indicated that the communist intellectual died of prostate cancer, a few days after the overthrow of President Salvador Allende. In May 2011, however, the Mexican magazine Proceso interviewed Manuel Osorio Araya, the poet's personal driver during his final months of life, which reported that Neruda had been killed by the military dictatorship of Pinochet.

"After September 11, the poet went into exile in Mexico with his wife Matilda. The plan was to overthrow the tyrant from abroad in less than three months. We would ask the world to help oust Pinochet. But before he took the plane after he was admitted to a clinic, they put a lethal injection in the stomach, "Araya said in December 2011 in The Country.