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Carrie Kahn

Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new report

Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda answers journalists' questions in 1971. (STF/AFP via Getty Images)

International forensic experts delivered a report to justice officials in Chile today regarding the death of the South American country's famous poet Pablo Neruda — some 50 years ago. A nephew of Neruda tells NPR that scientists found high levels of poison in the poet's remains.

Scientists from Canada, Denmark and Chile examined bone and tooth samples from Neruda's exhumed body. Neruda died in 1973, just days after the U.S.-backed coup that deposed his friend President Salvador Allende.

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