On the cause of Neruda’s deaththe lawyer pointed out that “the most relevant thing about all this is that it was detailed that Neruda had a large amount of Clostridium botulinum in his bonesthen the minister Mario Carroza (previous judge who heard the case) requested that it be clarified if it was contamination of the earth or external, and now in 2023 it will confirms that the bacterium is endogenousalive on September 23, 1973 he was injected in some way or another with that bacterium that took his life.” Regarding the reason why Neruda was murdered, Reyes stated that “politically he was the man who was going to unify criteria in a position against Pinochet back then, but I couldn’t do it from here in Chile, I had to do it from Mexico where I was going to travel, that’s why I couldn’t leave Chile alive,” adding that in his opinion “It had to be State agents” who injected the bacteria.
The lawyers expect to receive the reports delivered to Judge Paola Plaza next Monday, and in this way on Tuesday “make a review and have the most complete information so that the dialogue to be informed is more enriching.” Previously, in a conference at the same headquarters of the Círculo de Periodistas, the driver and personal assistant of Pablo Neruda, Manuel Arayatogether with the journalist and researcher Francisco Marinreaffirmed, despite not having access to the report of the third panel of international experts, that the Nobel Prize for Literature was assassinated. Araya, who shared with Pablo Neruda the days before his death, clarified that feel happy to reach this instance of the investigation and that now he expects that “It is known that Neruda was assassinated with that cursed injection that he inoculated himself with.”
Neruda’s driver and assistanttogether with the journalist They have sought for years to prove that Neruda did not die of prostate cancer as indicated on the death certificate, In fact, “in the case file there is no test that indicates that Neruda had cancer, in the file there are all the tests that Neruda underwent before his death, if he had cancer, it was not in a metastatic state,” indicated Marin. “Neruda was in good health, he did not have cachexia, he was not serious, he was not in intensive care and he was ready to leave with a plane waiting for him, how could his death not be suspicious?added the journalist.
On September 23, 1973day of the death of the poet, Araya received a call from Neruda in Isla Negra to return to the clinic because they had given him an injection in the abdomen. According to Marín, the following day, the newspapers of the time, including El Mercurio, published that the death of Pablo Neruda It was the product of an injection that caused him a shock that resulted in death, although later that “injection disappeared from history pbecause the death certificate that was made the next day says that there is cachexia and the official version was adapted to that certificate”explained the journalist.
Yesterday the coordinator of the panel of international experts, Gloria Ramírez, delivered the analysis to Judge Plazawhich did not disclose the results because “the cause is in summary.” On April 8, 2013, his remains were exhumed.which were sent to North Carolina, United States, and to the University of Murcia in Spain.
Source: Ambito
