Protests in Chile The second death of Pablo Neruda
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The third forensic report that will confirm the theory that Pablo Neruda died of poisoning will be officially published today in Santiago de Chile, after his family announced its content.
The study concludes a discussion that began in 2011, when Neruda's driver and personal assistant,
Manuel Araya, reported the murder
.
Is it foreseeable that the judicial investigation will advance until Neruda's murderer is found?
The instigator of him?
The family expresses its hope, but neither the poet's biographers nor the historians who deal with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
have reached any sufficient conclusion
.
The most complete account of Neruda's death is that of Araya, and it has a couple of crucial ellipses.
According to the driver (commissioned by the Chilean Communist Party to care for the poet), the coup on September 11 surprised Neruda already ill at his home in Isla Negra.
During a week,
the military raided the house several times
.
The doctor who was treating Neruda, Dr. Vargas Salazar, found him a room at the Santa María Clinic in Santiago de Chile, where he could prepare one last trip to Mexico, whose government had promised to protect him.
The transfer to Santiago was on September 19.
Neruda traveled by ambulance and
was humiliated at various military checkpoints.
After entering, Araya returned to Isla Negra for suitcases.
Neruda then called him and told him that
someone had injected him with something
.
When he returned to Santiago, he found it red and deteriorated.
A doctor commissioned Araya to buy a medicine: Urugotán
.
Araya was arrested on the message and did not see Neruda again.
The official suspect in that deadly jab has been Michael Townley, a far-right activist who, according to his enemies, was a CIA agent.
Subsequent investigations have shown that Townley was in Florida on those days and that he never worked for the CIA.
There is also no evidence that the US conspired against the poet
, as the Communist Party says.
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