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Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda in Paris in 1971
FORENSIC experts have determined that the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda nearly 50 years ago was caused by poisoning, a member of the Nobel Prize winner’s family said on Monday.
The revelation by Rodolfo Reyes, a nephew of Neruda, is the latest turn in one of post-coup Chile’s great debates.
The long-stated official position has been that the poet died of complications linked to prostate cancer.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November