Santiago: Confirmation that the famous Chilean poet and communist leader Pablo Neruda, who was immortalized in the hearts of supporters, was poisoned. The information in the report of the international forensic team is coming out after half a century. Neruda’s nephew Rodolfo Reyes revealed to the international media that poison was found in his body. Reyes revealed that forensic experts from Chile, Canada, and Denmark found the presence of an excessive amount of Chlorstridium botulinum in the body. The official report will be published on Wednesday. Neruda, 69, died on September 23, 1973, 12 days after Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile after ousting Communist President Salvador Allende in a military coup. But there was a suspicion that it was a murder. The first popular protest against Pinochet was after Neruda’s death. Neruda’s driver and bodyguard, Manuel Araya, revealed that Neruda was suspiciously injected at the clinic. Subsequently, the court appointed a committee of experts as requested by the Chilean Communist Party to conduct a judicial inquiry into the death. In 2015, the Chilean government revealed that Neruda’s death was not natural. In 2017, scientists working at the international level also assessed that the cause of death was not cancer. Read on deshabhimani.com