Santiago: Bone remains of Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda will be analyzed in the United States as investigators seek to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death.
Neruda's body was exhumed this week in an effort to discover if he died from prostate cancer or if he was poisoned by agents of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
The judge in charge of the case is Mario Carroza and he says that some skeletal remains will be sent to a laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Carroza said today he will receive a preliminary report about tests in Chile on April 22....
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01:34 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Santiago: Bone remains of Chilean Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda will be analyzed in the United States as investigators seek to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death. Neruda's body was exhumed this week in an effort to discover if he died from prostate cancer as was recorded, or if he was poisoned by agents of Gen Augusto Pinochet's bloody dictatorship, as his driver and others believe. Rodolfo Reyes, one...
07:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Pablo Neruda's famous poem has been immortalised by a Brazilian design and graphics studio 18bis. ...
12:39 PM, Mar 05, 2013
United Nations: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday launched a programme honouring Rabindranath Tagore, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and French poet Aime Cesaire for their work that 'carried high the standard of humanist values'. Coming from varied geographic, social and political backgrounds, Tagore, Neruda and Cesaire still showed a commitment to speaking for the voiceless, the United Nation (UN) body said. "By challenging relations based...
09:24 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: On the 107th birth anniversary of Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda, a leftist poet who died after the 1973 coup that ousted a socialist government, we pay tribute to some of his best works. Neruda, among Latin America's most renowned literary figures and an active Communist Party member, died of cancer on September 23, 1973 just days after then-president Salvador Allende was toppled and General Augusto Pinochet rose...
02:37 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New York: Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and his "Oda a las cosas simples" (Ode to simple things) are the inspiration behind a latest menswear collection by Honduran designer Carlos Campos. The autumn-winter collection for men that Campos presented in New York is dominated by green, the colour of the ink used by the Nobel prize-winning poet. Campos is the first Latino to present his new collection at the New York...
10:30 AM, Feb 15, 2011
