Chile leader: Ex-president's death must be solved

Chile's president vowed Tuesday to help find out what really killed one of his predecessors during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Sebastian Pinera said his Interior Ministry will join and support an independent judicial probe of the 1982 death of Eduardo Frei Montalva, a former president and prominent Pinochet critic who died suspiciously after a routine hernia operation.

Six people, including doctors and former Pinochet spies, were charged in December 2009 with conspiring to poison Frei Montalva....