Chile reburies Nobel-winning poet Pablo Neruda

Chile reburied Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's remains Tuesday after exhuming them to determine whether he was assassinated by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime -- a mystery that still lingers.

Three years after they were disinterred to be tested for traces of poison, a casket bearing Neruda's remains was buried at his former home in the resort town of Isla Negra, facing the Pacific ocean in line with his last wishes.
 
Neruda, a celebrated poet, politician, diplomat and bohemian, died in 1973 aged 69, just days after Pinochet, then the head of the Chilean army, overthrew Socialist president Salvador Allende in a bloody coup.
 
The writer, who was also a prominent member of the Chilean Communist party, had been preparing to flee into exile in Mexico to lead the resistance against Pinochet's regime.
 
He died in a Santiago clinic where he was being treated for prostate cancer -- the official cause of his death.
 
But doubts have surrounded his death since his former driver claimed Neruda was given a mysterious injection in his chest.
 
An international team of specialists who examined the remains are due to release their findings in May.
 
Forensic scientists at the University of Murcia in Spain said last year they had identified a massive, unexplained bacterial infection in Neruda's remains, rekindling his family's suspicions.
 
The Chilean interior ministry said the strain of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, does not occur naturally and may have been grown in a lab.
 
DNA analysis of the bacteria is ongoing.
 
In February, a Chilean court ordered the poet's remains to be returned to his grave. The judge told forensic analysts to keep small bone samples on...