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04 March 2013
CHILE : Poet Pablo Neruda's Body To Be Exhumed.
Officials ordered Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda's body exhumed in April after nearly 40 years.
His chauffeur...Manuel Araya...claimed that Neruda, 69...was poisoned by agents of dictator Pinochet in September 1973...while in a Santiago hospital.
Neruda was a staunch supporter of overthrown socialist President Salvador Allende.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/04/us-chile-neruda-exhumation-idUSBRE92311920130304