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April 9, 2013

Chile Exhumes Body of Poet Pablo Neruda to Probe Poisoning Claims 
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Chilean forensic experts have exhumed the body of the legendary poet
Pablo Neruda to probe allegations he was poisoned under Augusto
Pinochet's rule. While cancer has been the accepted cause of Neruda's
death for nearly four decades, the poet's driver has claimed he was
poisoned by a stomach injection administered by doctors. Neruda, who won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, was a close friend of ousted
president, Salvador Allende.

 

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