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Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda in Paris in 1971
FORENSIC experts have determined that the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda nearly 50 years ago was caused by poisoning, a member of the Nobel Prize winner’s family said on Monday.
The revelation by Rodolfo Reyes, a nephew of Neruda, is the latest turn in one of post-coup Chile’s great debates.
The long-stated official position has been that the poet died of complications linked to prostate cancer.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT