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Bernardo Leighton Guzmán (August 16, 1909, Nacimiento, Bío Bío Province – January 26, 1995) was a Chilean Christian Democrat who was targeted by Operation Condor.
A long-time Christian Democrat, he was mayor of Imperia in the eighties, as his father and his brother had been.
The plan was to stage Nasi as a candidate for High Commissioner for Sicily to oppose the favourite, the Christian Democrat Salvatore Aldisio.
He was minister of Education under Franco (1951-1955) but he drifted apart from the regime since 1956 and, adopting a Christian Democrat position, steadily started to promote a quiet transition to democracy, especially through Cuadernos para el Diálogo magazine.
Member of the Centre of Social Democrats (CDS), the Christian Democrat component of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), he entered politics in March 1989, being elected mayor of Lourdes and then Member of the European Parliament in June of the same year.
According to the National Security Archive, Virgilio Paz met DINA agent Michael Townley and Italian terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie in Madrid, in 1975, to prepare, with the help of Francisco Franco's secret police, the murder of Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton.
In 1993 Clemente was replaced by fellow Christian Democrat Giovanni Grasso.
The same day, Christian-Democrat former Prime Minister Aldo Moro's corpse was discovered on via Caetani in Rome.
Jaime Castillo Velasco (1914–2003), Chilean politician, Minister of Justice, affiliated with the Christian Democrat Party and the Rettig Report
In addition, he struck up friendships with prominent figures in local politics, such as the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva and democratic-socialist leaderSalvador Allende.
In 1972 Mechelli was replaced by fellow Christian Democrat Luigi Cipriani, to whom Rinaldo Santini succeeded in 1973.
On 12 April, Christian Democrat Lothar de Maizière formed a cabinet including six Social Democrats, among them Markus Meckel (foreign affairs), Regine Hildebrandt (social issues) and Walter Romberg (finance).
Under the government of Christian Democrat President Eduardo Frei, the law was amended in 1998 to promote private-sector participation.