The poet was a close friend of the overthrown Chilean president, Salvador Allende.

BBC: Chile poet Pablo Neruda's remains to be tested in US

Augusto Pinochet's rule, authorities exhumed former Chilean President Salvador Allende earlier this year.

CNN: Chilean Communists call for Neruda's exhumation

The family survived and flourished despite expropriation of much of its assets under Chile's left-wing President Salvador Allende in the early 1970s.

FORBES: Like father, like sons

The march was held as Chile prepares to remember the military coup that deposed the elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, on 11 September 1973.

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In 1970, Salvador Allende was sworn in as president of Chile.

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They also show the US government backed the anti-Pinochet referendum campaign, despite its initial support for the military government that overthrew the socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973.

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General Schneider died after resisting a kidnapping attempt which, the family says, was part of a wider plot to prevent the Chilean Marxist leader, Salvador Allende, from becoming president.

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