“Manuel Araya’s testimony and his courage were decisive for the emergence of evidence on which the appeal for the death of the poet to the justice system submitted by the party together with his family was based,” the KP Chile said in a press release that it published. clarifying that the former driver died yesterday Tuesday in the city of San Antonio, west of the capital Santiago.
The one-time driver of Pablo Neruda, whose testimony was decisive in investigating the case of the assassination by the military regime in 1973 of the Nobel laureate in literature, has died at the age of 77 in Chile, the Communist Party of the Latin American country announced on Wednesday.
“Manuel Araya’s testimony and his courage were decisive for the emergence of evidence on which the appeal for the death of the poet to the justice system submitted by the party together with his family was based,” the KP Chile said in a press release that it published. clarifying that the former driver died yesterday Tuesday in the city of San Antonio, west of the capital Santiago.
The hypothesis that Pablo Neruda, who received the Nobel Prize in 1971, was murdered in 1973 was formulated in 2011, following revelations by Manuel Araya, at the time a young member of the Communist Party of Chile who was appointed assistant and guide to the writer, also a member of the party.
Until then, the official version of events was that the poet died on September 23, 1973 from prostate cancer.
According to the theory, which has not been scientifically proven to date, Pablo Neruda succumbed after being given a mysterious injection on the eve of his departure for Mexico, where he intended to go into exile and lead the resistance against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). ).
“Neruda was a danger to Pinochet,” declared Manuel Araya in February, insisting on his own version, that the world-renowned writer was murdered.
Despite supporting the position that it was a murder for almost forty years, it was not until June 2011 that the CC requested a judicial investigation, in which the remains were exhumed and subjected to toxicological analyses.
But the team of experts who investigated the mysterious death of the poet could not ascertain whether his death was actually due to poisoning or not.
The bacterium clostridium botulinum “was present at the time of death, but we don’t yet know why. We only know that it shouldn’t be,” said Hendrick and Debbie Poinar of the Canadian McMaster University, members of the team that delivered its findings in February to the Chilean judge handling the case. Manuel Araya passed away, former driver of Pablo Neruda – He had reported that the Nobel laureate writer was murdered
Source :Skai
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