(Reuters) - A&nbsp;third&nbsp;inquiry&nbsp;into the&nbsp;death&nbsp;of&nbsp;Chilean&nbsp;poet&nbsp;Pablo&nbsp;Neruda&nbsp;50&nbsp;years&nbsp;ago&nbsp;could&nbsp;shed&nbsp;new&nbsp;light&nbsp;on&nbsp;whether&nbsp;he&nbsp;was&nbsp;poisoned&nbsp;by&nbsp;political&nbsp;enemies, as&nbsp;alleged&nbsp;by&nbsp;some&nbsp;of&nbsp;his&nbsp;family.
The&nbsp;latest expert report, presented to a court on Wednesday, will be reviewed by judges in closed&nbsp;hearings ahead of a legally binding ruling on the&nbsp;poet's&nbsp;death&nbsp;in 1973 shortly before the&nbsp;Pinochet dictatorship came to power.
Rodolfo Reyes, a&nbsp;Neruda&nbsp;nephew, reiterated this&nbsp;week claims that&nbsp;his&nbsp;uncle - a member of the&nbsp;Communist party and the&nbsp;most important&nbsp;Chilean&nbsp;intellectual of the&nbsp;time - was&nbsp;poisoned.
"(He&nbsp;was) murdered by agents of the&nbsp;state. Is there any doubt?"&nbsp;he&nbsp;told reporters outside the&nbsp;court.
He&nbsp;said&nbsp;he&nbsp;did not have access to the&nbsp;report. Earlier&nbsp;he&nbsp;told Spanish&nbsp;news agency EFE&nbsp;he&nbsp;had seen laboratory documents that supported the&nbsp;poisoning hypothesis.
An international forensics group in 2017 raised doubts as to&nbsp;whether&nbsp;Neruda&nbsp;died of prostate cancer at age 69 and did not rule out foul play.
Previous tests have found no evidence&nbsp;Neruda, winner of the&nbsp;Nobel Prize for literature in 1971, was&nbsp;poisoned.
The&nbsp;report's coordinator, Dr Gloria Ramirez, made no comment on Reyes' speculation about its findings, whose presentation to the&nbsp;court was delayed twice. It has not been made public because of judicial rules governing the&nbsp;inquiry.
Judge Paola Plaza, who is overseeing the&nbsp;case, said there is no deadline on delivering a verdict.
Neruda&nbsp;was a friend and adviser to&nbsp;Chilean&nbsp;socialist President Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a coup led by Augusto Pinochet in September 1973.
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(Reporting by Fabian Andr&eacute;s Cambero; Writing by Isabel Woodford; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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