Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda is famous for his passionate love poems and staunch communist views. He is presumed to have died from prostate cancer in 1973.<br/> <br />But Neruda's former driver says the poet was poisoned in hospital under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. And now there will be a new investigation into his death.<br/> <br />Neruda was a supporter of socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a military coup about two weeks before the poet's death.<br/> <br />Neruda had planned to go into exile, but feeling ill, he postponed his trip for 24 hours to visit a clinic.<br/> <br />Historian Fernando Marin explains that Neruda had a urinary infection -- but was not on his death bed.<br/> <br />In hospital he was given an injection - and some believe this contained the poison that killed him.<br/> <br />Neruda's former driver is pleased that Chilean authorities have decided to exhume the body and investigate.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PABLO NERUDA'S CHAUFFEUR, MANUEL ARAYA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Righ
