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Bernardo Leighton

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Bernardo Leighton Guzmán (August 16, 1909, Nacimiento, Bío Bío Province – January 26, 1995, Santiago) was a Chilean Christian Democratic Party politician and lawyer. [1]

52 relations: Antofagasta, Arturo Alessandri, Augusto Pinochet, Bío Bío Province, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chile, Chilean nationality law, Chilean naval mutiny of 1931, Christian Democratic Party (Chile), Concepción, Chile, Coquimbo, Cubans, Deputy (legislator), Dictatorship, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, Eduardo Frei Montalva, El Mercurio, Francisco Franco, Gabriel González Videla, José Ignacio Palma, Juan Francisco Fresno, Junta (governing body), Justice, La Segunda, Lawyer, Left-wing politics, Los Ángeles, Chile, Madrid, Marcial Mora, Michael Townley, Ministries of Chile, Ministry of Education (Chile), Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile), Nacimiento, Chile, National Falange, National Security Archive, Neo-fascism, Operation Condor, Parque del Recuerdo (Chile), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Radomiro Tomic, Rome, Santiago, Seminary, Society of Jesus, Stefano Delle Chiaie, The Honourable, ..., Virgilio Paz Romero, 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Expand index (2 more) »

Antofagasta

Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.

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Arturo Alessandri

Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma (December 20, 1868 – August 24, 1950) was a Chilean political figure and reformer, who served thrice as the President of Chile, first between 1920 and 1924, then for part of 1925, and finally from 1932 until 1938.

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Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 who remained the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 1998 and was also President of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981.

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Bío Bío Province

Bío Bío Province (Provincia de Biobío) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII).

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Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (November 3, 1877 – April 28, 1960) was a Chilean Army officer and political figure.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The Honourable Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile (Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Chilean nationality law

Chilean nationality law is based on both principles of jus soli and jus sanguini.

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Chilean naval mutiny of 1931

The Chilean naval mutiny of 1931 (Sublevación de la Escuadra) was a violent rebellion of Chilean Navy enlisted men against the government of Vice President Manuel Trucco.

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Christian Democratic Party (Chile)

The Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile and governs as part of the Nueva Mayoría coalition.

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Concepción, Chile

Concepción (in full: Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz, "Conception of the Blessed Mother of Light") is a Chilean city and commune belonging to the metropolitan area of Greater Concepción, it is one of the largest urban conurbations of Chile.

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Coquimbo

Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.

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Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people (Cubanos) are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba.

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Deputy (legislator)

A deputy is a legislator in many countries, particularly those with legislatures styled as a 'Chamber of Deputies' or 'National Assembly'.

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Dictatorship

A dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.

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Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional

The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean secret police in the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and has been called Pinochet's Gestapo.

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Edmundo Pérez Zujovic

Edmundo Pérez Zujovic (May 11, 1912 - June 8, 1971) was a Chilean politician of the Christian Democrat Party.

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Eduardo Frei Montalva

Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva (January 16, 1911 – January 22, 1982) was a Chilean political leader.

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El Mercurio

El Mercurio is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.

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Gabriel González Videla

Gabriel González Videla (November 22, 1898 – August 22, 1980) was a Chilean politician.

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José Ignacio Palma

José Ignacio Palma Vicuña (March 9, 1910 - June 27, 1988) was a Chilean engineer and politician.

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Juan Francisco Fresno

Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín (26 July 1914 – 14 October 2004) was a Chilean cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Junta (governing body)

Junta, pronounced as "hee-yun-nta", is a Spanish, Greek and Portuguese term for a civil deliberative or administrative council.

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Justice

Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered.

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La Segunda

La Segunda (The second one) is a Chilean afternoon daily owned by El Mercurio SAP.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Los Ángeles, Chile

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Bío Bío, in the commune of the same name, in Bío Bío, in the center-south of Chile.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Marcial Mora

Marcial Mora (January 12, 1895 – May 13, 1972) was a Chilean politician.

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Michael Townley

Michael Vernon Townley (born December 5, 1942) is a former agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional currently living under terms of the US federal witness protection program.

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Ministries of Chile

The Ministers of State of Chile (Ministros de Estado de Chile), according to the Chilean constitution, are the direct and immediate collaborators of the President of the Republic in the government and the administration of the state,Artícle 33 of the Constitution and in such, they are responsible for the handling of their respective Ministry (Ministerio), in accordance with the policies and instructions that it imparts.

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Ministry of Education (Chile)

The Ministry of Education of Chile (MINEDUC) is the Ministry of State responsible for promoting the development of education at all levels, to assure all people access to basic education, to stimulate scientific and technological research and artistic creation, and the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage of the nation of Chile.

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Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)

The Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública) is the cabinet-level office of home affairs in Chile, in charge of "maintaining public order, security and social peace" within the country.

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Nacimiento, Chile

Nacimiento (Birth) is a Chilean city situated in the Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region, south of Santiago, and from the closest major city in the region, Concepción.

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National Falange

The National Falange (Falange Nacional, FN) was a Chilean Christian political party that existed between 1935 and 1957.

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National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive is an investigative journalism center, open government advocate, international affairs research institute, and is the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government.

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Neo-fascism

Neo-fascism is a post–World War II ideology that includes significant elements of fascism.

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Operation Condor

Operation Condor (Operación Cóndor,also known as Plan Cóndor, Operação Condor) was a campaign of political repression and state terror in Latin American countries involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, mainly civilians, originally planned by the CIA.

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Parque del Recuerdo (Chile)

Parque del Recuerdo (Memory Park) is a group of cemetery parks located in Santiago, Chile.

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Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC) (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two Pontifical Universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.

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Radomiro Tomic

Radomiro Tomic Romero (7 May 1914 – 3 January 1992) was a Chilean politician of Croatian origin.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Santiago

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.

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Seminary

Seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, Early-Morning Seminary, and divinity school are educational institutions for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy, academia, or ministry.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Stefano Delle Chiaie

Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 13 September 1936 in Caserta) is a neofascist Italian activist (founder of ''Avanguardia Nazionale'', 1960, member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare, 1991).

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The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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Virgilio Paz Romero

Virgilio Pablo Paz Romero (born November 20, 1951) is a Cuban exile and militant who was involved in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C. Paz Romero was one of two people accused of detonating a remote-controlled car bomb that killed Letelier and a colleague in Washington's Sheridan Circle.

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1973 Chilean coup d'état

The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed moment in both the history of Chile and the Cold War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Leighton

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