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Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, 1963. (Photo by Angelo Cozzi/Mondadori via Getty Images)
AUGUSTO PINOCHET

Chile to reopen probe into death of poet Pablo Neruda

Neruda had been preparing to flee into exile in Mexico to lead the resistance against the Pinochet regime when he died in hospital just 12 days after the coup

  • Afp
3 min read
‘As a growing global movement serves notice on the ubiquity of predatory forms of sexuality we must take full measure of the weight of the fact
CHE GUEVARA

‘She was right to regard me with contempt’

Rape culture can lodge even within a progressive project, as the example of Pablo Neruda shows

  • Richard Pithouse
9 min read
PABLO NERUDA

Chile’s Neruda endures, as do questions over his death

Pablo Neruda was that rare thing – a public poet, and a great one, held in deep affection by every layer of Chilean society.

  • Mike Gonzalez
5 min read
Members of the Medical Legal Service digging the tomb of Chile’s poet Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra.
AUGUSTO PINOCHET

Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was long thought to have succumbed to cancer but his driver claims he was murdered by the Augusto Pinochet regime.

  • Guardian Reporter
3 min read