Samples of Pablo Neruda's body arrive in Canada to clarify death

The samples were stored in the cellars of the Legal Medical Service, because they could not be sent abroad due to lack of resources. The corpse of Nobel Prize for Literature 1971 He was exhumed in April 2013 from the grave where he was at his home in Isla Negra, on the central coast of Chile.

This analysis seeks to clarify if Neruda died of cancer or if he was killed, after he died at the Santa María de Santiago clinic on September 23, 1973, exactly 12 days after the military coup, according to the Chilean Agency Uno.

Neruda's grandson, Rodolfo Reyes, confirmed the shipment of the samples, and said that “we were trapped in the investigation due to the slowness of the Legal Medical Service, which indicated that it did not have sediments that needed to be compared to be presented in Canada, by way of of verification, ”he said.

Reyes criticized the forensic agency by pointing out that “repeatedly and under the offices of the minister (in visit of the Court of Appeals of Santiago) Mario Carroza, who said he did not have these sediments, denied them, and we were about to ask the Minister to make a search. ”

“In the end the judge did it the third time we asked for it, and he himself appeared directly to the Legal Medical Service at the beginning of last August, and after which the three sediments that were needed were found. We lost a lot of time and that hurt the investigation, ”Reyes said.

According to the Chilean Agency One, "the relatives have the full conviction that Neruda was killed, because Reyes points out that this is indicated by the examinations of the MacMaster laboratories, which was killed, because he did not die of cancer," but because of the Botulymic neurotoxin, which is produced by a bacterium.

It is estimated that exams will be ready in approximately two months. It is also expected that by 2020 Judge Mario Carroza will issue his ruling on the causes of the death of the Chilean poet, considered among the most prominent and influential artists of the twentieth century.

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