Was Pablo Neruda assassinated?
After almost half a century, the doubt remains that the great Chilean poet did not die of prostate cancer , but that he was poisoned by the regime of Augusto Pinochet .
The Nobel Prize for Literature died on September 23, 1973, two weeks after the coup d'état that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973).
Five years ago, a group of experts had discovered, by analyzing a molar of Ricardo Neftalí Reyes (Neruda's real name), a toxin called Clostridium botulinum , i.e. the best known of the botulinum toxin-producing clostridia, considered as the microorganism responsible for botulism, highlighting the need for further analysis.
Now we want to go all the way. The Chilean judge for human rights cases, Paola Piazza, reiterated the recently mentioned that specialized laboratories have been commissioned bacterial genomic studies to discover the toxin identified in the molar could be a bacterium grown in the laboratory .
The new team of experts, concluded the magistrate, will have to start from the results of these studies precisely to clarify the circumstances relating to the discovery of the constridium botulinum in the remains of the poet.
The poet's body was exhumed on April 8, 2013 from his grave on the beach of Isla Negra, where he rests next to Matilde Urrutia, his last wife.
The national coordinator of Human Rights of the Chilean Supreme Court, Mario Carrozza, stressed that "we are about to put an end to an investigation that seems to us to have been transcendental, given that in this case there is evidence that allows the third group of experts to determine whether or not a substance may have been instrumental in the death of Pablo Neruda".
(Unioneonline/lf)
