International experts will reveal this Wednesday that the bacteria found in the Chilean Nobel laureate’s remains “was in his body at the time of death”
International experts will reveal this Wednesday that the bacteria found in the remains of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was “in his body at the time of death,” which may show he was “poisoned” 12 days after the 1973 military coup. brought his family to EFE.
“We now know that the ‘clostridium botulinum’ should not have been in Neruda’s skeleton. What does this mean? That Neruda was murdered, state agents intervened there in 1973′, explains Rodolfo Reyes, the poet’s cousin.
The bacteria, responsible for botulism, was found in a Neruda tooth in 2017 by another panel of experts, who dismissed the dictatorship’s version that the cause of death was advanced prostate cancer that had plagued him since 1969.
Clostridium botulinum is a bacillus commonly found in the soil, but experts from McMaster University (Canada) and the University of Copenhagen concluded in the report being presented this week that “it did not enter Neruda’s corpse from within or around its body.” leaked”. coffin”, but that he already had it before he died.
It remains unknown how and who introduced the botulinum toxin into the body of the author of “Twenty love poems and a song of despair”. «Neruda’s deadly bullet was found, which he had in his body. Who shot? That will soon become apparent, but there is no doubt that Neruda was murdered. Direct third-party intervention,” Reyes emphasized.
Much of Neruda’s family supports the version of Manuel Araya, his former driver and who claims he was poisoned by an injection in the abdomen by a regime secret agent posing as a doctor at the Santa María clinic in Santiago.
“Neruda was not seriously ill, he just had cancer. He was walking with difficulty, he was in pain, but he wasn’t ready to die,” Elizabeth Flores, the family’s lawyer, who is acting as the plaintiff in the 2011 case against the Communist Party, of which Neruda was a member, told EFE.
For his part, Reyes recalled that the writer, whose challenges were unearthed in 2013 in his garden on Isla Negra, on the central Chilean coast, planned to travel to Mexico a few days before he died, at age 69. to travel. in exile he is said to have become the “great opponent” of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
The conclusions of this new expert report were supposed to be known on February 3, but the hearing was canceled twice – first due to technical defects and then due to alleged disagreements between the experts – and moved to this Wednesday. “The lawyers will ask for other types of proceedings, which may or may not be scientific,” Flores added.
Source: La Verdad
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