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Pablo Neruda Could Have Been Poisoned

21/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Pablo Neruda Could Have Been Poisoned

Forensic experts say the Chilean poet didn't die of prostate cancer

Forensic experts say the Chilean poet didn't die of prostate cancer.

Toxins have been found in the remains of the Chilean left-wing poet who died shortly after a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Also: the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is appointed a UN goodwill ambassador, and twenty years of Harry Potter.

(Photo: Pablo Neruda. Credit: BBC)

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