Chile Was Pablo Neruda Murdered How did the botulism

Chile | Was Pablo Neruda Murdered? How did the botulism bacteria get into your body?

Did Pablo Neruda die of poisoning? The presence of the botulism bacterium, discovered in his remains by a panel of international experts, has reopened Pandora’s box fifty years after the death of the poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature.

Rodolfo Reyes, Neruda’s nephew and lawyer, believes the results of the investigation leave no room for doubt.

“Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium, should never have been present in Pablo Neruda’s skeleton. And for us, as for everyone who is not a doctor, it means the assassination of Pablo Neruda‘ Reyes said at a news conference.

Also, Manuel Araya, driver of the Nobel Prize in Literature, believes he was poisoned with a possible injection a day before the date when he planned to go into exile in Mexico to lead the opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship.

“I’m burning inside, Manuel, I’m burning,” he said to his driver.

“Neruda tells me: ‘I’m burning inside, Manuel, I’m burning’. I approached him and lowered his cloak to check it and he told me this There was a small spot there, two fingers under the heart. It was a little red mark, like when someone pokes you and leaves a pimple‘ Araya explained to reporters.

The experts from Canada, Denmark and Chile presented the results of their investigations to Judge Paola Plaza this week, who must rule on the case.

The Chilean regime asserted that the poet died of a sudden worsening of his prostate cancer, a claim years later proved to be false.

Pablo Neruda, a well-known communist militant, died on September 23, 1973, twelve days after General Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état against Socialist President Salvador Allende, which gave way to a dictatorship that left more than 3,000 dead and missing in Chile. .