Pablo Neruda Didn't Die Of Cancer, Experts Say. So What Killed The Poet?
Official documents say the Nobel laureate died of prostate cancer in 1973. But 16 forensics experts have unanimously concluded that isn't true, stoking suspicions again that he was actually poisoned.
by Colin Dwyer
Oct 23, 2017
2 minutes
Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, after all.
At least, that's the unanimous conclusion of an international group of forensic experts who inspected samples from the Chilean poet's exhumed remains. Official documents say Neruda succumbed to his prostate cancer and a related wasting sickness in September 1973 — but
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