SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean judge formally accused six people on Friday of assassinating a former president during the country's 1973 to 1990 dictatorship, marking the second time in a decade he has moved to resolve the enduring murder case.
Judge Alejandro Madrid charged doctor Patricio Silva, chauffeur Luis Becerra, and intelligence agent Raul Lillo of poisoning Eduardo Frei Montalva in a Santiago clinic in 1982, an act apparently instigated by the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, court documents showed.
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