Pablo Neruda died of cancer, experts say

The famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda indeed died of cancer, Latin American media report, citing the preliminary results of the exhumation of the poet’s remains.

Experts opened the tomb of Nobel-prize winning poet on April 8 to determine if poison caused his death days after the 1973 coup.
Neruda, who died 12 days after the 1973 military coup that ousted Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende and brought General Augusto Pinochet to power, was long believed to have died of prostate cancer.

But in 2011, officials started looking into the possibility of whether the leftist author was poisoned by agents of the Pinochet regime, as claimed by Neruda's driver, Al Jazeera reported.