Isabel Allende Remembers Meeting Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda & Reacts to the Exhumation of His Remains

Watch the full 40-minute interview with Isabel Allende on Democracy Now! at owl.li/kzh9I. Earlier this month, the body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was exhumed after his former driver said he had been poisoned under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and that he didn't die of prostate cancer as reported in 1973. Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, was a close friend of the ousted democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, author of the new book, "Maya's Notebook: A Novel," shares with Democracy Now! her memories of meeting Neruda, attending his funeral, and her reaction to the exhumation of his remains nearly four decades later.
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