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ellisonz

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Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:01 AM Jan 2012

AP: Suspicions rise in Pablo Neruda's death

By EVA VERGARA | Associated Press – Mon, Jan 16, 2012

ISLA NEGRA, Chile (AP) — The suspicions have lingered for decades.

Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, would have been a powerful voice in exile against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But that all changed just 24 hours before Neruda was to flee the country in the chaos following the 1973 military coup.

He was 69 years old and suffering from prostate cancer when he died, exactly 12 days after the brutal coup that ended the life of his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende.

The official version was that he died of natural causes brought on by the trauma of witnessing the coup and the lethal persecution of many of his friends.

http://news.yahoo.com/suspicions-rise-pablo-nerudas-death-151735831.html

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