The family of the Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda has brought forward the conclusions of this new investigation, which will be officially presented tomorrow. Analysis shows that the bacteria ‘clostridium botulinum’ found in his body was the cause of his death, and not prostate cancer.
The family of the Chilean poet and politician, Pablo Nerudawho died in 1973 from the effects of advanced prostate cancer, has ensured that was “poisoned by agents of the state” of Chile. The next of kin have drawn the conclusions of a new international expert report who found a bacteria in the remains of the Nobel laureate, which could prove he had been “poisoned” 12 days after the 1973 military coup.
The report, which will be officially presented this Wednesday, reveals, as explained by Rodolfo Reyes, the writer’s lawyer and cousin, that the bacteria found (‘clostridium botulinum’) “did not leak into Neruda’s corpse from inside or around his coffin. ” , but he had it before he died.
This new research was conducted by experts from McMaster University (Canada) and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and another one from 2017 is coming to validate conducted by another panel of experts, who also rejected the dictatorship’s version, rejecting that the cause of death was advanced prostate cancer that had plagued him since 1969.
The conclusions of this new expert report were due to be released on February 3, but the hearing was canceled twice – first due to technical flaws and then due to alleged disagreements between the experts – and moved to February 15.
“Clostridium botulinum” is a bacillus generally found in soil, but was found in “large quantities” in one of the poet’s molars.
“That should never have been in the skeleton, in Neruda’s body, and that was injected. So as a lawyer, I have to say that Neruda was eliminated in Chile. Who? We don’t know yet. Will know, and of course it had to be state agents his,” Reyes assured, recalling that in 1973 the poet was an opinion leader and “posed a public danger to” the dictator Pinochet.
The unknown remains how and who introduced the toxin botulinum in the body of the author of “Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song”. Much of Neruda’s family supports the version of Manuel Araya, his former driver and who claims that 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 wasn’t seriously ill, he just had cancer. He had a hard time walking, he was in pain, but he wasn’t ready to die,” said Elizabeth Flores, a family lawyer who is the plaintiff in the case that began in 2011 with the Communist Party, of which Neruda was a member.
For his part, Reyes recalled that the writer, whose remains were exhumed in 2013 in his garden on Isla Negra, with the participation of the Basque coroner Paco Etxeberria, planned to die a few days before he died, at the age age 5, to travel to Mexico. 69, and that in exile he would have become the “great adversary” of General Augusto Pinochet.
The Chilean writer, then a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, died on September 23, 1973, two weeks after the coup that overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende.
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