Family of Chilean poet and politician pablo neruda, died as a result of supposedly in 1973 advanced prostate cancerconfirmed this Monday that he was poisoned byr Chile’s “state agents”.
As the author’s lawyer and nephew Rodolfo Reyes explains, “a large amount of ‘clostridium botulinum’” was found in Neruda’s skeleton in 2017. pathogenic bacteria that can cause botulisma disease caused by a toxin that attacks the nerves in the body.
“This should never have been in the skeleton, in Neruda’s body, and it was injected. So, as a lawyer, it leads me to say that Neruda was eliminated in Chile. Who? We don’t know yet. We’ll know, and of course they had to be state agents“, Reyes assured Cadena Ser, convened by Europa Press, that the poet was an opinion leader in 1973, reminding him that he was a “public danger” to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The Chilean writer, who was then part of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, died on September 23, 1973. two weeks after the coup that overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende.
Manuel Araya, Pablo Neruda’s driver and personal assistant, has repeatedly denied this version. cause of death was cancer and he was assured he was “killed” By the Pinochet regime (1973-1990).
A group of forensic scientists pointed out that in 2017 the Nobel Prize in Literature did not die of cancer as originally reported, allowing further hypotheses.