Adam Scott Actor

A Chilean judge has ordered the experts to determine what killed a Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda, a poet who died 12 days left after the 1973 coup that overthrew a socialist government.

It has long been believed to Neruda, the most renowned writers of Latin America and active member of the Communist Party, died of cancer. But officials are trying to determine if Neruda, in fact, may have been murdered.

Judge Mario Carroza asked whether the authorities to exhume the remains of the poet, near his house in Isla Negra.

"We need to clarify the history you had before his illness, before this type of cancer," he told reporters Chariot. "Once the full story at hand, we should be able to make a proper determination forensic experts only."

Justice officials agreed June 2 to open an investigation into complaints about Neruda September 23, 1973 death. He died a few days after then-President Salvador Allende was overthrown and General Augusto Pinochet came to power.

Neruda's research follows a decision last month by the government to exhume the remains of Allende, hoping to finally determine whether he committed suicide or was killed during a military coup in 1973.

The Communist Party presented the request for investigation.

According to official history approved by the foundation named after him, Neruda died following a worsening of prostate cancer.

Neruda, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, is best known for his love poems as well as his "Canto General" - an epic poem about the history of South America and its people.

He was a prominent member of the Communist Party of Chile, whose writings were banned at work 1973-1990 military dictatorship of Pinochet.

Neruda's real name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto and took the pseudonym of Pablo Neruda in memory of the Czech poet Jan Neruda.

He joined the Republican movement during the Spanish Civil War and began work on the poems in the 1930's while living in Spain and France. He was elected to the Senate of Chile in 1945 and held various diplomatic positions.