Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile) explained

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (Spanish; Castilian: 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 Alberto van Klaveren.

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:

Titulars

Ministers of foreign affairs and colonization

align=center Picturealign=center Namealign=center Entered officealign=center Exited officealign=center Notesalign=center Appointed by
Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez 18711875Federico Errázuriz Zañartu
Enrique Cood Ross18751876
José Alfonso Cavada 18761878Aníbal Pinto
Alejandro Fierro Pérez 18781879
Domingo Santa María González 18791879
Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate 18791880
Melquiades Valderrama Sáenz de la Peña 18801881
José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández 18811882Domingo Santa María
Luis Aldunate Carrera 18821884
Aniceto Vergara Albano 18841885
Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu 18851886
Joaquín Godoy Cruz 18861886José Manuel Balmaceda
Francisco Freire Caldera 18861887

Ministers of foreign affairs and worship

align=center Picturealign=center Namealign=center Entered officealign=center Exited officealign=center Notesalign=center Appointed by
Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate 18871888José Manuel Balmaceda
Augusto Matte Pérez 18881888
Marcial Demetrio Lastarria 18881889
Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla 18891889
Eduardo Matte Pérez 18891890
Juan Castellón Larenas 18901890
Juan Eduardo Mackenna Astorga 18901890
José Tocornal Jordán 18901891
Domingo Godoy Cruz 18911891
Ricardo Cruzat Hurtado 18911891
Manuel María Aldunate Solar 189129 August 1891
Manuel Antonio Matta Goyenechea7 September 189126 December 1891Revolutionary Junta of Iquique
Luis Pereira Cotapos 26 December 18911892Jorge Montt
Juan Castellón Larenas 18921892
Isidoro Errázuriz Errázuriz 18921893
Ventura Blanco Viel 18931894
Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla 18941894
Luis Barros Borgoño 18941895
Claudio Matte Pérez 18951895
Adolfo Guerrero Vergara 189518 September 1896

Ministers of foreign affairs, worship and colonization

align=center Picturealign=center Namealign=center Entered officealign=center Exited officealign=center Notesalign=center Appointed by
Enrique de Putrón Cavareda 18 September 18961896Federico Errázuriz Echaurren
Carlos Morla Vicuña 18961897
Raimundo Silva Cruz 18971898
Juan José Latorre Benavente 18981898
Ventura Blanco Viel 18981899
Federico Puga Borne 18991899
Rafael Valentín Errázuriz Urmeneta 18991899
Manuel Salinas González 18991900
Emilio Bello Codecido 19001900
Raimundo Silva Cruz 19001901
Luis Martiniano Rodríguez Herrera 1901 18 September 1901Appointed by
Reappointed byalign=center Aníbal Zañartu
Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León 18 September 19011902Germán Riesco
Horacio Pinto Agüero 19021902
José Francisco Vergara Donoso 5 May 19021903
Máximo Del Campo Yávar 19031903
Agustín Edwards Mac Clure 19031903
Rafael Sotomayor Gaete 19031904
Emilio Bello Codecido 19041904
Adolfo Guerrero Vergara 19041904
Raimundo Silva Cruz 19041904
Luis Antonio Vergara Ruíz 19041905
Agustín Edwards Mac Clure 19051905
Federico Puga Borne 19051906
Santiago Aldunate Bascuñán 19061906
Antonio Huneeus Gana 190618 September 1906
Ricardo Salas Edwards 18 September 19061907Pedro Montt
Federico Puga Borne 19071908
José Rafael Balmaceda Fernández 19081909
Agustín Edwards Mac Clure 19091910
Luis Izquierdo Fredes 191023 December 1910
Rafael Orrego González 23 December 19101911Ramón Barros Luco
Enrique Rodríguez Carmona 19111912
Joaquín Figueroa Larraín 19121912
Antonio Huneeus Gana 19121912
Renato Sánchez García de la Huerta 19121913
Enrique Villegas Echiburú 19131914
Alejandro Lira Lira 19141914
Manuel Salinas González 19141915
Rafael Orrego Gónzalez 191523 December 1915
Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña 23 December 191527 April 1916Juan Luis Sanfuentes
Silvestre Ochagavía Echaurren 27 April 19161 July 1916
Juan Enrique Tocornal Doursther 1 July 191620 November 1916
Alamiro Huidobro Valdés 20 November 191614 July 1917
Arturo Besa Navarro 14 July 191713 October 1917
Eduardo Suárez Mujica 13 October 191718 January 1918
Guillermo Pereira Iñiguez 18 January 191822 April 1918
Daniel Feliú Manterola 22 April 19186 September 1918
Ruperto Bahamonde Rivera 6 September 191828 November 1918
Luis Barros Borgoño 28 November 19188 November 1919
Alamiro Huidobro Valdés 8 November 191929 March 1920
Antonio Huneeus Gana 29 March 19201 July 1920
Luis Aldunate Echeverría 1 July 192023 December 1920
Jorge Matte Gormaz 23 December 19201921Arturo Alessandri
Ernesto Barros Jarpa 19211922
Samuel Claro Lastarria 192216 October 1922
Carlos Aldunate Solar16 October 192221 December 1922
Luis Izquierdo Fredes 21 December 19221923
Pedro Rivas Vicuña 19231923
Emilio Bello Codecido 19231923
Armando Jaramillo Valderrama 19231924
Roberto Sánchez García de la Huerta 192414 March 1924
Galvarino Gallardo Nieto 14 March 192420 July 1924
Ramón Briones Luco 20 July 19241924
Emilio Bello Codecido 192412 September 1924

Ministers of foreign affairs (first creation)

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Carlos Aldunate Solar 12 September 1924 23 January 1925 align=center September Junta
Jorge Matte Gormaz 29 January 1925 13 October 1925 align=center January Junta
Ernesto Barros Jarpa 13 October 1925 23 December 1925 align=center Luis Barros Borgoño
Beltrán Mathieu Andrews 23 December 1925 2 August 1926 Emiliano Figueroa
Antonio Huneeus Gana 2 August 1926 20 November 1926
Jorge Matte Gormaz 20 November 1926 22 February 1927
Conrado Ríos Gallardo 22 February 1927 3 September 1929

Ministers of foreign affairs and commerce

align=center Picturealign=center Namealign=center Entered officealign=center Exited officealign=center Notesalign=center Appointed by
Manuel Barros Castañón3 September 1929 27 April 1931Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Antonio Planet Cordero27 April 193113 July 1931
Carlos Aldunate Errázuriz13 July 193122 July 1931
Guillermo Edwards Matte22 July 193123 July 1931
Alberto Edwards Vives23 July 193126 July 1931
Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra26 July 19313 September 1931Appointed byalign=center Pedro Opazo
Reappointed byalign=center Juan Esteban Montero
Reappointed byManuel Trucco
Luis Izquierdo Fredes3 September 193115 November 1931
Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra15 November 19315 June 1932 align=center Juan Esteban Montero
Luis Barriga Errázuriz 5 June 19323 October 1932Appointed byalign=center Socialist Junta
Reappointed byalign=center Carlos Dávila
Reappointed byalign=center Bartolomé Blanche
Jorge Matte Gormaz 3 October 193224 December 1932align=center Abraham Oyanedel
Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal24 December 193214 February 1937Arturo Alessandri
Gustavo Ross Santa María 14 February 193724 March 1937
José Ramón Gutiérrez Allende24 March 193715 September 1938
Luis Arteaga García 15 September 193824 December 1938
Abraham Ortega Aguayo24 December 19388 February 1940Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Cristóbal Sáenz Cerda8 February 194030 July 1940
Marcial Mora Miranda30 July 19407 November 1940
Manuel Bianchi Gundián 7 November 194026 March 1941
Luis Alamos Barros26 March 194110 June 1941
Juan Bautista Rossetti Colombino10 June 19412 April 1942

Ministers of foreign affairs (second creation)

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Ernesto Barros Jarpa2 April 194221 October 1942Juan Antonio Ríos
Joaquín Fernández y Fernández21 October 19423 November 1946
Raúl Juliet Gomez3 November 19462 August 1947Gabriel González Videla
Germán Vergara Donoso2 August 19476 July 1948
Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz7 July 194827 February 1950
Horacio Walker Larraín27 February 195019 June 1951
Eduardo Irarrázabal Concha19 June 195129 July 1952
Fernando García Oldini29 July 19523 November 1952
Arturo Olavarría Bravo3 November 19521952Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Oscar Fenner Marín19531954
Roberto Aldunate León195415 January 1954
Tobías Barros Ortiz15 January 19546 January 1955
Osvaldo Koch Krefft6 January 195530 May 1955
Kaare Olsen Nielsen30 May 19552 January 1956
José Serrano Palma2 January 19564 January 1956
Enrique Barbosa Baeza4 January 195624 May 1956
Osvaldo Sainte Marie Sorucco24 May 195628 October 1957
Alberto Sepúlveda Contreras28 October 19573 November 1958
Germán Vergara Donoso3 November 195826 August 1961Jorge Alessandri
Carlos Martinez Sotomayor26 August 196117 December 1963
Julio Philippi Izquierdo17 December 19633 November 1964
Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux3 November 19643 November 1970align=center Eduardo Frei Montalva
Clodomiro Almeyda Medina3 November 19705 July 1973Salvador Allende
Orlando Letelier del Solar5 July 19738 August 1973
Clodomiro Almeyda Medina8 August 197311 September 1973
Ismael Huerta Díaz12 September 19733 July 1974Augusto Pinochet
Patricio Carvajal Prado3 July 197420 April 1978
Hernán Cubillos Sallato20 April 197820 March 1980
René Rojas Galdames20 March 198014 February 1983
Miguel Schweitzer Walters15 February 198319 December 1983
Jaime Del Valle Alliende19 December 19837 July 1987
Ricardo García Rodríguez8 July 198721 October 1988
Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Correa22 October 198811 March 1990
Enrique Silva Cimma 11 March 199011 March 1994align=center Patricio Aylwin
Carlos Figueroa Serrano11 March 199420 September 1994Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
José Miguel Insulza Salinas20 September 199421 June 1999
Juan Gabriel Valdés Soublette22 June 199911 March 2000
María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela11 March 20001 October 2004Ricardo Lagos
Ignacio Walker Prieto1 October 200411 March 2006
Alejandro Foxley Rioseco11 March 200612 March 2009Michelle Bachelet
Mariano Fernández Amunátegui12 March 200911 March 2010
Alfredo Moreno Charme 11 March 201011 March 2014align=center Sebastián Piñera
Heraldo Muñoz 11 March 201411 March 2018align=center Michelle Bachelet
Roberto Ampuero 11 March 201813 June 2019Sebastián Piñera
Teodoro Ribera 13 June 201928 July 2020
Andrés Allamand 28 July 20206 February 2022
Antonia Urrejola 11 March 202210 March 2023 Gabriel Boric
Alberto van Klaveren 10 March 2023Incumbent

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