Pablo Neruda: Chile exhumes poet's body in murder probe

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22062216
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Forensic experts in Chile are exhuming the remains of the poet, Pablo Neruda, who died in 1973.

The Chilean authorities want to establish whether he died of cancer or was poisoned on the orders of Chile's military ruler, Gen Augusto Pinochet.

Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winner, was a member of the Communist Party and a staunch supporter of ousted Chilean president Salvador Allende.

He died aged 69 just 12 days after Gen Pinochet's coup against Mr Allende.

The poet's family maintains that he died of advanced prostate cancer.

In 2011, Chile started investigating allegations by his former driver and personal assistant, Manuel Araya, that Mr Neruda had been poisoned.

'Suspicious injection'

Mr Araya says Pablo Neruda called him from hospital, and told him he was feeling sick after having been given an injection in the stomach.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. This is one "conspiracy theory" I'd give way more credence than most

Fitting that this comes out at the same time as Thatcher, that notorious friend of Pinochet's, died.
The problem here is whether, if true, the evidence would still be on his remains so many years later. I wonder how they would tell?