A mystery more than 50 years old.
Chilean justice ordered this Tuesday the reopening of the investigation into the death of the poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Pablo Neruda, who could have been poisoned under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in 1973.
“The reopening of the investigation is ordered in order to carry out the procedures” requested by the complainants, which “could contribute to the clarification of the facts”, details the Santiago Court of Appeal in its decision.
The reopening of the investigation was requested by relatives of the poet, as well as by the Communist Party, of which the 1971 Nobel Prize winner for literature was a member.
It cancels the order closing the investigation made in December by the judge in charge of the case, Paola Plaza.
Pablo Neruda died on September 23, 1973, twelve days after General Pinochet's putsch against the socialist president Salvador Allende, a great friend of the poet.
The cancer thesis refuted
International experts unanimously rejected the official version of the military regime in 2017, ensuring that he did not die of a sudden worsening of his cancer.
But they could not confirm or exclude the possibility of voluntary and deliberate contamination by the injection of germs or bacterial toxins.
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According to this theory of poisoning, Pablo Neruda died from an injection given the day before his departure for Mexico, where he planned to go into exile to lead the opposition to the Pinochet regime (1973-1990).
The dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet left some 3,200 dead and more than 38,000 people tortured, according to official figures.