Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile)

Andrés Allamand, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs

Logo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the foreign policy formulated by the President of Chile. It is located in the Edificio José Miguel Carrera at Plaza de la Constitución (Constitution Square), in downtown Santiago.

The present Minister of Foreign Affairs (who is also known colloquially as Chancellor) is Andrés Allamand.

History[]

The office was first organized in 1812, during the War of Independence, under the name of Foreign Affairs Secretariat. It was abolished in 1814, after the Battle of Rancagua, when the Spanish government was re-established.

In 1818, after independence, the secretariat was re-established, but this time as a dependency of the Ministry of the Interior, which at that time was named "Ministry of Government and Foreign Affairs" (1818 - 1824) or "Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs" (1824 - 1871). In 1871 is established as a separate government entity.

Since its current creation in 1871, it has undergone different reorganizations, reflected in its different names:

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Colonization 1871-1887
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship 1887-1896
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Worship and Colonization 1896-1924
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1924-1929, and again since 1941
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commerce 1930-1941

Titulars[]

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Colonization[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez	1871	1875		Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
	Enrique Cood Ross	1875	1876
	José Alfonso Cavada	1876	1878		Aníbal Pinto
		1878	1879
	Domingo Santa María González	1879	1879
	Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate	1879	1880
	Melquiades Valderrama Sáenz de la Peña	1880	1881
	José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández	1881	1882		Domingo Santa María
	Luis Aldunate Carrera	1882	1884
		1884	1885
	Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu	1885	1886
		1886	1886		José Manuel Balmaceda
		1886	1887

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Worship[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate	1887	1888		José Manuel Balmaceda
	Augusto Matte Pérez	1888	1888
		1888	1889
		1889	1889
	Eduardo Matte Pérez	1889	1890
	Juan Castellón Larenas	1890	1890
		1890	1890
		1890	1891
		1891	1891
	Ricardo Cruzat Hurtado	1891	1891
		1891	August 29, 1891
		September 7, 1891	December 26, 1891		Revolutionary Junta of Iquique
		December 26, 1891	1892		Jorge Montt
	Juan Castellón Larenas	1892	1892
		1892	1893
		1893	1894
		1894	1894
	Luis Barros Borgoño	1894	1895
		1895	1895
		1895	September 18, 1896

Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Worship and Colonization[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
		18 September 1896	1896		Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
		1896	1897
		1897	1898
	Juan José Latorre Benavente	1898	1898
		1898	1899
		1899	1899
	Rafael Valentín Errázuriz Urmeneta	1899	1899
		1899	1900
	Emilio Bello Codecido	1900	1900
		1900	1901
		1901	18 September 1901	Appointed by
				Reappointed by	Aníbal Zañartu
	Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León	18 September 1901	1902		Germán Riesco
		1902	1902
		5 May 1902	1903
		1903	1903
	Agustín Edwards Mac Clure	1903	1903
	Rafael Sotomayor Gaete	1903	1904
	Emilio Bello Codecido	1904	1904
		1904	1904
		1904	1904
		1904	1905
	Agustín Edwards Mac Clure	1905	1905
		1905	1906
		1906	1906
		1906	18 September 1906
		18 September 1906	1907		Pedro Montt
		1907	1908
	José Rafael Balmaceda Fernández	1908	1909
	Agustín Edwards Mac Clure	1909	1910
		1910	23 December 1910
		23 December 1910	1911		Ramón Barros Luco
		1911	1912
	Joaquín Figueroa Larraín	1912	1912
		1912	1912
		1912	1913
		1913	1914
		1914	1914
		1914	1915
		1915	23 December 1915
	Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña	23 December 1915	27 April 1916		Juan Luis Sanfuentes
	Silvestre Ochagavía Echaurren	27 April 1916	1 July 1916
		July 1, 1916	November 20, 1916
		November 20, 1916	July 14, 1917
		July 14, 1917	October 13, 1917
	Eduardo Suárez Mujica	October 13, 1917	January 18, 1918
		January 18, 1918	April 22, 1918
		April 22, 1918	September 6, 1918
		September 6, 1918	November 28, 1918
	Luis Barros Borgoño	November 28, 1918	November 8, 1919
		November 8, 1919	March 29, 1920
		March 29, 1920	July 1, 1920
		July 1, 1920	December 23, 1920
		December 23, 1920	1921		Arturo Alessandri
		1921	1922
		1922	October 16, 1922
	Carlos Aldunate Solar	October 16, 1922	December 21, 1922
		December 21, 1922	1923
		1923	1923
	Emilio Bello Codecido	1923	1923
		1923	1924
		1924	14 March 1924
		14 March 1924	20 July 1924
	Ramón Briones Luco	20 July 1924	1924
	Emilio Bello Codecido	1924	12 September 1924

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (First Creation)[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
	Carlos Aldunate Solar	September 12, 1924	January 23, 1925		September Junta
		January 29, 1925	October 13, 1925		January Junta
		October 13, 1925	December 23, 1925		Luis Barros Borgoño
		December 23, 1925	August 2, 1926		Emiliano Figueroa
		August 2, 1926	November 20, 1926
		November 20, 1926	February 22, 1927
		February 22, 1927	September 3, 1929

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Commerce[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
		3 September 1929	27 April 1931		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
		27 April 1931	13 July 1931
		13 July 1931	22 July 1931
		22 July 1931	23 July 1931
		23 July 1931	26 July 1931
		26 July 1931	3 September 1931	Appointed by	Pedro Opazo
				Reappointed by	Juan Esteban Montero
				Reappointed by	Manuel Trucco
		3 September 1931	15 November 1931
		15 November 1931	5 June 1932		Juan Esteban Montero
		5 June 1932	3 October 1932	Appointed by	Socialist Junta
				Reappointed by	Carlos Dávila
				Reappointed by	Bartolomé Blanche
		3 October 1932	24 December 1932		Abraham Oyanedel
	Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal	24 December 1932	14 February 1937		Arturo Alessandri
		14 February 1937	24 March 1937
		24 March 1937	15 September 1938
		15 September 1938	24 December 1938
		24 December 1938	8 February 1940		Pedro Aguirre Cerda
		8 February 1940	30 July 1940
	Marcial Mora Miranda	30 July 1940	7 November 1940
		7 November 1940	26 March 1941
		26 March 1941	10 June 1941
		10 June 1941	2 April 1942

Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Second creation)[]

Picture	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Notes	Appointed by
		April 2, 1942	October 21, 1942		Juan Antonio Ríos
		October 21, 1942	November 3, 1946
		November 3, 1946	August 2, 1947		Gabriel González Videla
		August 2, 1947	July 6, 1948
	Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz	July 7, 1948	February 27, 1950
		February 27, 1950	June 19, 1951
		June 19, 1951	July 29, 1952
		July 29, 1952	November 3, 1952
		November 3, 1952	1952		Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
		1953	1954
		1954	January 15, 1954
		January 15, 1954	January 6, 1955
		January 6, 1955	May 30, 1955
		May 30, 1955	January 2, 1956
		January 2, 1956	January 4, 1956
		January 4, 1956	May 24, 1956
		May 24, 1956	October 28, 1957
		October 28, 1957	November 3, 1958
		November 3, 1958	August 26, 1961		Jorge Alessandri
		August 26, 1961	December 17, 1963
		December 17, 1963	November 3, 1964
	Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux	November 3, 1964	November 3, 1970		Eduardo Frei Montalva
	Clodomiro Almeyda Medina	November 3, 1970	July 5, 1973		Salvador Allende
	Orlando Letelier del Solar	July 5, 1973	August 8, 1973
	Clodomiro Almeyda Medina	August 8, 1973	September 11, 1973
	Ismael Huerta Díaz	September 12, 1973	July 3, 1974		Augusto Pinochet
	Patricio Carvajal Prado	July 3, 1974	April 20, 1978
		April 20, 1978	March 20, 1980
	René Rojas Galdames	March 20, 1980	February 14, 1983
	Miguel Schweitzer Walters	February 15, 1983	December 19, 1983
		December 19, 1983	July 7, 1987
		July 8, 1987	October 21, 1988
		October 22, 1988	March 11, 1990
	Enrique Silva Cimma	March 11, 1990	March 11, 1994		Patricio Aylwin
		March 11, 1994	September 20, 1994		Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
	José Miguel Insulza Salinas	September 20, 1994	June 21, 1999
	Juan Gabriel Valdés Soublette	June 22, 1999	March 11, 2000
	María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela	March 11, 2000	October 1, 2004		Ricardo Lagos
	Ignacio Walker Prieto	October 1, 2004	March 11, 2006
	Alejandro Foxley Rioseco	March 11, 2006	March 12, 2009		Michelle Bachelet
		March 12, 2009	March 11, 2010
	Alfredo Moreno Charme	March 11, 2010	March 11, 2014		Sebastián Piñera
	Heraldo Muñoz	March 11, 2014	March 11, 2018		Michelle Bachelet
	Roberto Ampuero	March 11, 2018	June 13, 2019		Sebastián Piñera
	Teodoro Ribera	June 13, 2019	July 28, 2020
	Andrés Allamand	July 28, 2020	Incumbent

Additional information[]

See also[]

• Foreign relations of Chile
• List of diplomatic missions in Chile
• List of diplomatic missions of Chile

Sources[]

• República de Chile (1942). "VI. Poder Ejecutivo - Nómina de Gobernantes, Presidentes y Ministros desde la Independencia.". Manual del Senado. 1810-1942 (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria. (in Spanish)
• Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (in Spanish) (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (in Spanish)
• Official list of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Chile with appointment dates (in Spanish)

External links[]

• Official Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (in Spanish)