Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda may have been murdered by Pinochet agents - Video
Chilean courts have decided to reexamine the death of the poet, whom some suspect was killed by the Pinochet regime. - Neruda, a member of Chile's Communist Party who won the Nobel Prize in 1971, is among the most widely read Spanish-language poets. Millions of people the world over have been wooed by "Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair". When he died just two weeks after the September 11, 1973, coup that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende, most people assumed it was from a broken heart that had accelerated the prostate cancer with which he had been diagnosed the previous year. Neruda was a close friend of Allende, and the military had raided his famous seaside home in Isla Negra, in those days about a two-hour drive from the capital Santiago. It was at Isla Negra that he completed his memoirs, which end with a bitter damnation of the coup and of General Augusto Pinochet.