Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda:BBC news updates about famous personality Neruda. Neruda was 69 at the time of his death. In both cases, the Chilean military stands accused of murder and the country’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet is once again in the metaphorical dock.

An official investigation has also been opened into the death of world-renowned Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda, who died on September 23, 1973. His death, the junta reported, was from prostate cancer, but newly released military files indicate he too may have been murdered by the Pinochet regime.

The political right, rich and foreign corporate interests, particularly Kennecott Copper, Anaconda and International Telephone and Telegraph, were all set in opposition to Allende,

Particularly as he nationalized most major corporations in the belief that the revenue from a nation’s resources should be directed towards the common good, development and poverty alleviation rather than to enrich corporations.