[dieg0]

Wrong, he died from Cancer. Only in the past few years this conspiracy theory surfaced. It is well known he was very ill way before the military coup. In fact, the left wanted him to be the candidate instead of Salvador Allende, but he didn't go for it, because he was involved in medical treatments.

This is just the left trying to rewrite history, and please don’t cite journalists as sources. It is said that journalists have a bast amount of information but an inch of depth on it.

[badminton1]

Wrong, forensic doctor Aurelio Luna, Director of the external service of forensic science of University of Murcia found traces of a cultivated bacteria in the exhumed body of Pablo Neruda. This is enough to raise suspicions about his death.

Remember that assassinations in hospitals during this period were not uncommon. It is also suspected that former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva was killed by the regime during a hospital stay.

[dieg0]

Only one forensic doctor backs those claims. Not enough for me, sorry.

[badminton1]

He spoke on behalf of team of doctors he represents.

Just concede the point. It is a known fact that the regime killed people for much less and Neruda had already provoked them enough by then.

[killjoywashere]

I'm sorry, traces of bacteria in an exhumed body?! This less surprising than find bacteria in shit.

[wumms]

cultivated bacteria (suggesting a laboratory was involved)

[sparky_z]

All I know is what I've just read in the Wikipedia article, but nobody seems to be claiming that he didn't have cancer. In fact it's part of the story, with his doctor injecting him with some sort of poison instead of treatment. So "you guys, he totally had cancer" doesn't actually disprove anything. It's entirely possible to murder a cancer patient.