Pablo Neruda was a well-known Chilean poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and holder of a productive literary career. He died in 1973 and the circumstances of his death are being re-investigated by his country’s judiciary.
Neruda also served as a diplomat and politician and joined the Communist Party of Chile.
He is known for works such as “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” and “Canto General.” His death was the subject of controversy and speculation surrounding the military dictatorship that was established in Chile in the 1970s.
The Chilean judiciary ordered this Tuesday to reopen the investigation into the cause of the poet’s deathwhat you believe He may have been poisoned by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1973.
The appeals court revoked Judge Paola Plaza’s December order to dismiss the case, making way for new investigations and reports to clear up the mystery surrounding Neruda’s death.
The court ordered the “reopening of the summary” and the implementation of the “procedures requested by the complainants” that “could contribute to clarifying the facts,” according to the decision published by the judiciary.
The appeal was filed by Neruda’s nephew and the Communist Party in which the poet, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, was active and died on September 23, 1973, just 12 days after the coup in Chile.
He was 69 years old and suffering from prostate cancer.
The judicial investigation into his death began after his former driver Manuel Araya revealed it to the press in 2011 The poet may have been poisoned by the Pinochet dictatorship, which, according to official figures, resulted in more than 3,200 deaths and around 38,000 tortures..
Although Neruda suffered from cancer, it was not in the final stages, according to the version of Araya, who died on June 21 last year.
“The investigation had not yet been completed and therefore the summary in this trial investigating the death of Pablo Neruda had to be reopened,” Manuel Luna, lawyer for the Communist Party, commented on the court order.
AFP.