Neruda, famed for his passionate love poems and staunch communist views, is presumed to have died from prostate cancer just days after the US-backed coup on 11 September 1973 that ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. “There is initial evidence that he was poisoned and in that sense the signs point to the intervention of specific agents … that could constitute a crime against humanity,” Francisco Ugas, the head of the government’s humans rights department, said on Wednesday. theguardian/world/2015/jan/21/chile-pablo-neruda-death-body-poison-pinochet
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:37:15 +0000