Bel article dans le NY Times sur le poète Pablo Neruda. Lundi on exhumait le corps du chilien pour tenter de déterminer s'il est mort du cancer ou s'il a été empoisonné. Le Chili d'il y a quarante ans était celui du renversement de Salvador Allende et de la mise en place du régime du général Pinochet appuyé par les Américains. Neruda avait supporté Allende.
"Neruda died in a clinic in Santiago on Sept. 23, 1973 — 12 days after the American-backed coup that overthrew Allende and brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. Many Chileans have long been skeptical of the official cause of death. In 2011, Neruda’s former driver said the poet told him, on the eve of his death, that he’d been given a harmful injection by a doctor. Conspiracy theorists note that Neruda died in the same hospital where Eduardo Frei Montalva, a politician who had supported the junta before switching sides, died in 1982. A judge ruled in 2009 that Frei had been poisoned.
Could Neruda have suffered a similar fate? Allende had died on Sept. 11, 1973, and another opponent of the junta, the folk singer Víctor Jara, was assassinated on Sept. 16. Finishing off Neruda could have been the junta’s coup de grâce.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/disturbing-pablo-nerudas-rest.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130410
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