Pablo Neruda's Death to be Investigated Again

Jacket Copy reports that investigators in Chile will take another look at the cause of Pablo Neruda's death. The last doctor who was at his bedside at the time of death continues to be a mystery; proponents of the continued investigations remain concerned that he was poisoned. From Jacket Copy:

The body of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda will be exhumed, again, to determine if the poet may have been poisoned.

Longstanding suspicions about the author's death led to his exhumation in 2013. No poison was found then, but further tests are now planned.

Neruda died just 12 days after the coup that put authoritarian leader Augusto Pinochet in power in 1973. A high-profile writer and political activist, Neruda had been a supporter of President Salvador Allende, who was deposed and died during the coup.

For many years, Neruda's driver has maintained that the writer complained to him of feeling ill after being given an injection in the stomach. The official cause of death was recorded as prostate cancer. [...]

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