Chilean Venezuelans Explained

Group:	Chilean Venezuelans
Native Name:	Spanish; Castilian: Chilenos-venezolanos
Total:	12,037
Total Year:	2011
Total Ref:	^[1]
Region1:	Miranda State
Region2:	Bolívar State
Region3:	Capital District
Region4:	Carabobo State
Pop1:	2,744
Pop2:	1,947
Pop3:	1,334
Pop4:	1,297
Langs:	Chilean SpanishVenezuelan Spanish
Rels:	Roman Catholic
Related-C:	Chilean diaspora

Chilean Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Chilean descent or Chileans who have obtained Venezuelan citizenship. This migratory flow was one of the main destinations for exiles from the Pinochet dictatorship,^[2] at which time approximately 80,000 people came to Venezuela,^[3] in addition to professional migrants motivated by the oil boom occurred between 1950 and 1980.

In 2011, the Miranda State was the state with the highest concentration of Chileans (2,744 in total), followed by the Bolívar State (1,947 in total) and the Capital District (1,334 in total). Several activities are carried out within the Chilean communities of Venezuela, such as the 1973 coup d'état commemoration^[4] and the celebration of native land holidays.^[5]

Notable people

Chilean immigrants in Venezuela

• Isabel Allende, writer (she lived in Venezuela between 1975 and 1988)
• Jaime Castillo Velasco, lawyer and politician
• Beto Cuevas, singer
• Mariano Díaz, photographer

Venezuelans descendants of Chileans

• George Forsyth, footballer
• Gregorio González Nicolini, filmmaker and financial analyst
• Jorge Valdivia, footballer

See also

• Chile–Venezuela relations
• Tarapacá migrant crisis
• Chilean diaspora
• Immigration to Venezuela

Notes and References

1. Web site: Segundo Registro de Chilenos en el Exterior. ¿Cuántos son, dónde están y cómo son los chilenos?. Dirección para la Comunidad de Chilenos en el Exterior, National Statistics Institute of Chile. 26 June 2018. 150–159. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20180626220440/http://www.chilesomostodos.gov.cl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Publicaci%C3%B3n-Segundo-Registro-de-Chilenos-en-el-Exterior-1.pdf. 26 June 2018. dead.
2. Book: Perspectivas migratorias: Un análisis interdisciplinario de la migración internacional. Schiavon. Jorge A.. Durand. Jorge. 2014. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. 978-607-7843-07-8. 22. es.
3. News: Venezuela es el tercer país con más inmigrantes en Latinoamérica. 8 December 2016. Informe21. 23 October 2016. es. 22 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200422110814/https://informe21.com/actualidad/venezuela-es-el-tercer-pais-con-mas-inmigrantes-en-latinoamerica. dead.
4. News: Rinden tributo en Caracas a Salvador Allende. 11 September 2016. 9 December 2016. Globovisión. es.
5. News: Caracas festejó en familia. Dirección para la Comunidad de Chilenos en el Exterior. Fuentes. Carolina. 23 September 2016. 11 December 2016. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220092041/http://www.chilesomostodos.gov.cl/noticias/caracas-festejo-en-familia/. 20 December 2016. dead.