Neruda Foundation demands Chile immediately rebury poet

May 20, 2015 03:40

Chile's Neruda Foundation has demanded that the remains of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda be reburied immediately.

Neruda died in the chaos following Chile's 1973 military coup, and his body was exhumed in 2013 to determine the cause of his death, which some people speculated was from poisoning. Forensic tests showed no toxic agents in his bones.

Plans to rebury him last month in the coastal town of Isla Negra were suspended after members of the poet's family and other groups asked the courts to block it, demanding more tests.

The Neruda Foundation, which oversees the poet's estate, had refrained from commenting, but yesterday it said it has grown frustrated with the legal wrangling that has kept the body from being reburied.

"More than two years have passed and his remains are still unburied waiting for a decision by an appeals court," the foundation said in a statement.

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