[Peace-discuss] Pablo Neruda - BBC articles on his death, whether poisoned or not -- was: My cut and paste from Ben Norton's FB page, has been tampered with.

Mon Oct 23 00:20:17 UTC 2017

Thanks Stuart, and thanks for explaining what might have happened.

On Oct 22, 2017, at 16:01, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com<mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hey Karen,

This seems to be the article you had seen originally, and it's still on the BBC web site:

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Pablo Neruda 'did not die of cancer', say experts

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda did not die of prostate cancer, forensic experts have said.

The Nobel Laureate was said to have died of cancer in 1973, less than two weeks after a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

But his former driver Manuel Araya maintains he actually died after being poisoned by the secret service.

New tests on Neruda's remains have now confirmed he did not die of cancer, but have yet to reveal the actual cause.

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Dr Aurelio Luna told a press conference the experts were "100% convinced" that the death certificate "does not reflect the reality of the death".

The poet was suffering from prostate cancer, but it was not life-threatening - leading the 16 international experts to conclude a third party could have possibly been involved.

They will now carry out tests on a toxin found in his remains, which were exhumed on a judge's orders in 2013. It could be up to a year before the results are known.

Neruda was a supporter and personal friend of Chile's deposed socialist President, Salvador Allende.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Neruda's wife Matilde (pictured with the poet) did not believe he had died of cancer

The poet died on 23 September 1973, 12 days after the military coup and three days after he had been offered asylum in Mexico.

According to Mr Araya, the day he died he called to say he had been injected in the stomach while he was asleep, and to come to the hospital quickly.

Neruda died that evening, and Mr Araya says he has no doubt what killed him.

"Until the day I die I will not alter my story," Mr Araya told the BBC in 2013.

"Neruda was murdered. They didn't want Neruda to leave the country so they killed him."

On 10/22/2017 03:52 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
When I copied and did a paste of this article the title was “Neruda didn’t die of cancer." it looks as if the article has been tainted, since I copied it. This is not what I posted. Poisoning has not yet been ruled out according to the previous article, which was posted on my FB.

On Oct 21, 2017, at 17:14, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

'No poison found' in Chile poet Pablo Neruda's remains

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Media captionEmily Thomas reports: ''Four decades of suspicion hang over Pablo Neruda's death''

No traces of poison have been found in the remains of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, forensic experts say.

The results were announced after more than six months of tests by 15 Chilean and foreign experts.

The left-wing poet died in 1973, days after the military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.

His body was exhumed in April to establish whether he died of poisoning, as his driver and others suspected.

Neruda, who died aged 69, was a close friend of ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende.

A very important chapter has closed and was done very seriously but this is not over Eduardo Contreras, Chilean Communist Party lawyer

"No traces of chemical agents have been found," said Patricio Bustos, director of the Chilean Forensic Service, on Friday.

Mr Bustos confirmed that Neruda's remains seemed to support the official line that he had died of cancer.

Suspicions

However, Friday's highly-anticipated results did not satisfy everyone.

"The Neruda case doesn't close today," said Chilean Communist Party lawyer Eduardo Contreras.

"Today we are going to request more samples. They referred to chemical agents but there are no studies about biological agents. A very important chapter has closed and was done very seriously but this is not over."

[Neruda and President Salvador Allende                            (undated image)]Image captionNeruda was a friend of ousted Chilean leader Salvador Allende, left

Neruda's driver and personal assistant, Manuel Araya, had maintained that the poet was poisoned.

Mr Araya said Neruda had called him from hospital, and told him he was feeling sick after having been given an injection in the stomach.

Chile began investigating Mr Araya's allegations in 2011.

The suspicions were backed by the Chilean Communist Party, which said Neruda did not exhibit any of the symptoms associated with the advanced prostate cancer he was said to have died of.

They said that the military government feared Neruda would go into exile in Mexico and campaign against the Pinochet regime.

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