Pablo Neruda’s Body Exhumed

Elegy

Was the poet poisoned on Pinochet’s orders?

Published Apr. 8 2013 1:42PM EDT

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The body of Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was exhumed on Monday in an investigation into whether he was poisoned after the 1973 military coup that installed Augusto Pinochet.

Pablo Neruda’s Body Exhumed

Was the poet poisoned on Pinochet’s orders?

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