A team of national and international experts are to start work this weekend on a new project to determine for certain the cause of death of Pablo Neruda, in September 1973.
His death, which occurred shortly after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, was officially explained as heart failure after being admitted to hospital for cancer. However, theories that the prominent left-wing poet, who had worked on Salvador Allende’s presidential campaign, did not die of natural causes have circulated ever since.
Led by the Legal Medical Service (SML) nearly 40 years after the poet’s death, experts now hope to find out the truth once and for all.
The team will be comprised of 5 experts from SML, 4 experts from overseas and 4 from the University of Chile. They will make a collaborative report based on scientific tests.
“There will be no room for personal bias,” announced Director Patricio Bustos. ”The team will compile a report from which they can draw theories, but only the facts will be handed to the ministry.”
The poet’s remains will be taken to an anthropological laboratory in the forensic department of the SML, with bio-security precautions and very a strict access-only policy.
A biochemical team and toxicologists will also be present to determine if any potential toxins detected in the artist’s bones are of chemical or biological origin.
Wednesday 3 April 2013
http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/04/02/pablo-neruda-exhumed-monday/83733
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