# Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile)

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 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:
* 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

| Name | Entered office | Exited office | Appointed by |
| Adolfo Ibáñez Gutiérrez | 1871 | 1875 | Federico Errázuriz Zañartu |
| Enrique Cood Ross | 1875 | 1876 | Federico Errázuriz Zañartu |
| José Alfonso Cavada | 1876 | 1878 | Aníbal Pinto |
| Alejandro Fierro Pérez | 1878 | 1879 | Aníbal Pinto |
| Domingo Santa María González | 1879 | 1879 | Aníbal Pinto |
| Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate | 1879 | 1880 | Aníbal Pinto |
| Melquiades Valderrama Sáenz de la Peña | 1880 | 1881 | Aníbal Pinto |
| José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández | 1881 | 1882 | Domingo Santa María |
| Luis Aldunate Carrera | 1882 | 1884 | Domingo Santa María |
| Aniceto Vergara Albano | 1884 | 1885 | Domingo Santa María |
| Aníbal Zañartu Zañartu | 1885 | 1886 | Domingo Santa María |
| Joaquín Godoy Cruz | 1886 | 1886 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Francisco Freire Caldera | 1886 | 1887 | José Manuel Balmaceda |

### Ministers of foreign affairs and worship

| Name | Entered office | Exited office | Appointed by |
| Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate | 1887 | 1888 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Augusto Matte Pérez | 1888 | 1888 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Marcial Demetrio Lastarria | 1888 | 1889 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla | 1889 | 1889 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Eduardo Matte Pérez | 1889 | 1890 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Juan Castellón Larenas | 1890 | 1890 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Juan Eduardo Mackenna Astorga | 1890 | 1890 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| José Tocornal Jordán | 1890 | 1891 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Domingo Godoy Cruz | 1891 | 1891 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Ricardo Cruzat Hurtado | 1891 | 1891 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Manuel María Aldunate Solar | 1891 | 29 August 1891 | José Manuel Balmaceda |
| Manuel Antonio Matta Goyenechea | 7 September 1891 | 26 December 1891 | Revolutionary Junta of Iquique |
| Luis Pereira Cotapos | 26 December 1891 | 1892 | Jorge Montt |
| Juan Castellón Larenas | 1892 | 1892 | Jorge Montt |
| Isidoro Errázuriz Errázuriz | 1892 | 1893 | Jorge Montt |
| Ventura Blanco Viel | 1893 | 1894 | Jorge Montt |
| Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla | 1894 | 1894 | Jorge Montt |
| Luis Barros Borgoño | 1894 | 1895 | Jorge Montt |
| Claudio Matte Pérez | 1895 | 1895 | Jorge Montt |
| Adolfo Guerrero Vergara | 1895 | 18 September 1896 | Jorge Montt |

### Ministers of foreign affairs, worship and colonization

| Name | Entered office | Exited office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Enrique de Putrón Cavareda | 18 September 1896 | 1896 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Carlos Morla Vicuña | 1896 | 1897 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Raimundo Silva Cruz | 1897 | 1898 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Juan José Latorre Benavente | 1898 | 1898 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Ventura Blanco Viel | 1898 | 1899 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Federico Puga Borne | 1899 | 1899 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Rafael Valentín Errázuriz Urmeneta | 1899 | 1899 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Manuel Salinas González | 1899 | 1900 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Emilio Bello Codecido | 1900 | 1900 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Raimundo Silva Cruz | 1900 | 1901 | | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Luis Martiniano Rodríguez Herrera | 1901 | 18 September 1901 | Appointed by | Federico Errázuriz Echaurren |
| Luis Martiniano Rodríguez Herrera | 1901 | 18 September 1901 | Reappointed by | Aníbal Zañartu |
| Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León | 18 September 1901 | 1902 | | Germán Riesco |
| Horacio Pinto Agüero | 1902 | 1902 | | Germán Riesco |
| José Francisco Vergara Donoso | 5 May 1902 | 1903 | | Germán Riesco |
| Máximo Del Campo Yávar | 1903 | 1903 | | Germán Riesco |
| Agustín Edwards Mac Clure | 1903 | 1903 | | Germán Riesco |
| Rafael Sotomayor Gaete | 1903 | 1904 | | Germán Riesco |
| Emilio Bello Codecido | 1904 | 1904 | | Germán Riesco |
| Adolfo Guerrero Vergara | 1904 | 1904 | | Germán Riesco |
| Raimundo Silva Cruz | 1904 | 1904 | | Germán Riesco |
| Luis Antonio Vergara Ruíz | 1904 | 1905 | | Germán Riesco |
| Agustín Edwards Mac Clure | 1905 | 1905 | | Germán Riesco |
| Federico Puga Borne | 1905 | 1906 | | Germán Riesco |
| Santiago Aldunate Bascuñán | 1906 | 1906 | | Germán Riesco |
| Antonio Huneeus Gana | 1906 | 18 September 1906 | | Germán Riesco |
| Ricardo Salas Edwards | 18 September 1906 | 1907 | | Pedro Montt |
| Federico Puga Borne | 1907 | 1908 | | Pedro Montt |
| José Rafael Balmaceda Fernández | 1908 | 1909 | | Pedro Montt |
| Agustín Edwards Mac Clure | 1909 | 1910 | | Pedro Montt |
| Luis Izquierdo Fredes | 1910 | 23 December 1910 | | Pedro Montt |
| Rafael Orrego González | 23 December 1910 | 1911 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Enrique Rodríguez Carmona | 1911 | 1912 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Joaquín Figueroa Larraín | 1912 | 1912 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Antonio Huneeus Gana | 1912 | 1912 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Renato Sánchez García de la Huerta | 1912 | 1913 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Enrique Villegas Echiburú | 1913 | 1914 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Alejandro Lira Lira | 1914 | 1914 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Manuel Salinas González | 1914 | 1915 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Rafael Orrego Gónzalez | 1915 | 23 December 1915 | | Ramón Barros Luco |
| Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña | 23 December 1915 | 27 April 1916 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Silvestre Ochagavía Echaurren | 27 April 1916 | 1 July 1916 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Juan Enrique Tocornal Doursther | 1 July 1916 | 20 November 1916 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Alamiro Huidobro Valdés | 20 November 1916 | 14 July 1917 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Arturo Besa Navarro | 14 July 1917 | 13 October 1917 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Eduardo Suárez Mujica | 13 October 1917 | 18 January 1918 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Guillermo Pereira Iñiguez | 18 January 1918 | 22 April 1918 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Daniel Feliú Manterola | 22 April 1918 | 6 September 1918 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Ruperto Bahamonde Rivera | 6 September 1918 | 28 November 1918 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Luis Barros Borgoño | 28 November 1918 | 8 November 1919 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Alamiro Huidobro Valdés | 8 November 1919 | 29 March 1920 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Antonio Huneeus Gana | 29 March 1920 | 1 July 1920 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Luis Aldunate Echeverría | 1 July 1920 | 23 December 1920 | | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
| Jorge Matte Gormaz | 23 December 1920 | 1921 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Ernesto Barros Jarpa | 1921 | 1922 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Samuel Claro Lastarria | 1922 | 16 October 1922 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Carlos Aldunate Solar | 16 October 1922 | 21 December 1922 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Luis Izquierdo Fredes | 21 December 1922 | 1923 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Pedro Rivas Vicuña | 1923 | 1923 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Emilio Bello Codecido | 1923 | 1923 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Armando Jaramillo Valderrama | 1923 | 1924 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Roberto Sánchez García de la Huerta | 1924 | 14 March 1924 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Galvarino Gallardo Nieto | 14 March 1924 | 20 July 1924 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Ramón Briones Luco | 20 July 1924 | 1924 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Emilio Bello Codecido | 1924 | 12 September 1924 | | Arturo Alessandri |

### Ministers of foreign affairs (first creation)

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

### Ministers of foreign affairs and commerce

| Name | Entered office | Exited office | Notes | Appointed by |
| Manuel Barros Castañón | 3 September 1929 | 27 April 1931 | | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Antonio Planet Cordero | 27 April 1931 | 13 July 1931 | | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Carlos Aldunate Errázuriz | 13 July 1931 | 22 July 1931 | | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Guillermo Edwards Matte | 22 July 1931 | 23 July 1931 | | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Alberto Edwards Vives | 23 July 1931 | 26 July 1931 | | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra | 26 July 1931 | 3 September 1931 | Appointed by | Pedro Opazo |
| Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra | 26 July 1931 | 3 September 1931 | Reappointed by | Juan Esteban Montero |
| Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra | 26 July 1931 | 3 September 1931 | Reappointed by | Manuel Trucco |
| Luis Izquierdo Fredes | 3 September 1931 | 15 November 1931 | | Manuel Trucco |
| Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra | 15 November 1931 | 5 June 1932 | | Juan Esteban Montero |
| Luis Barriga Errázuriz | 5 June 1932 | 3 October 1932 | Appointed by | Socialist Junta |
| Luis Barriga Errázuriz | 5 June 1932 | 3 October 1932 | Reappointed by | Carlos Dávila |
| Luis Barriga Errázuriz | 5 June 1932 | 3 October 1932 | Reappointed by | Bartolomé Blanche |
| Jorge Matte Gormaz | 3 October 1932 | 24 December 1932 | | Abraham Oyanedel |
| Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal | 24 December 1932 | 14 February 1937 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Gustavo Ross Santa María | 14 February 1937 | 24 March 1937 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| José Ramón Gutiérrez Allende | 24 March 1937 | 15 September 1938 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Luis Arteaga García | 15 September 1938 | 24 December 1938 | | Arturo Alessandri |
| Abraham Ortega Aguayo | 24 December 1938 | 8 February 1940 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |
| Cristóbal Sáenz Cerda | 8 February 1940 | 30 July 1940 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |
| Marcial Mora Miranda | 30 July 1940 | 7 November 1940 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |
| Manuel Bianchi Gundián | 7 November 1940 | 26 March 1941 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |
| Luis Alamos Barros | 26 March 1941 | 10 June 1941 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |
| Juan Bautista Rossetti Colombino | 10 June 1941 | 2 April 1942 | | Pedro Aguirre Cerda |

### Ministers of foreign affairs (second creation)

| Name | Entered office | Exited office | Appointed by |
| Ernesto Barros Jarpa | 2 April 1942 | 21 October 1942 | Juan Antonio Ríos |
| Joaquín Fernández y Fernández | 21 October 1942 | 3 November 1946 | Juan Antonio Ríos |
| Raúl Juliet Gomez | 3 November 1946 | 2 August 1947 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Germán Vergara Donoso | 2 August 1947 | 6 July 1948 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz | 7 July 1948 | 27 February 1950 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Horacio Walker Larraín | 27 February 1950 | 19 June 1951 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Eduardo Irarrázabal Concha | 19 June 1951 | 29 July 1952 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Fernando García Oldini | 29 July 1952 | 3 November 1952 | Gabriel González Videla |
| Arturo Olavarría Bravo | 3 November 1952 | 1952 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Oscar Fenner Marín | 1953 | 1954 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Roberto Aldunate León | 1954 | 15 January 1954 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Tobías Barros Ortiz | 15 January 1954 | 6 January 1955 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Osvaldo Koch Krefft | 6 January 1955 | 30 May 1955 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Kaare Olsen Nielsen | 30 May 1955 | 2 January 1956 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| José Serrano Palma | 2 January 1956 | 4 January 1956 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Enrique Barbosa Baeza | 4 January 1956 | 24 May 1956 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Osvaldo Sainte Marie Sorucco | 24 May 1956 | 28 October 1957 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Alberto Sepúlveda Contreras | 28 October 1957 | 3 November 1958 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo |
| Germán Vergara Donoso | 3 November 1958 | 26 August 1961 | Jorge Alessandri |
| Carlos Martinez Sotomayor | 26 August 1961 | 17 December 1963 | Jorge Alessandri |
| Julio Philippi Izquierdo | 17 December 1963 | 3 November 1964 | Jorge Alessandri |
| Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux | 3 November 1964 | 3 November 1970 | Eduardo Frei Montalva |
| Clodomiro Almeyda Medina | 3 November 1970 | 5 July 1973 | Salvador Allende |
| Orlando Letelier del Solar | 5 July 1973 | 8 August 1973 | Salvador Allende |
| Clodomiro Almeyda Medina | 8 August 1973 | 11 September 1973 | Salvador Allende |
| Ismael Huerta Díaz | 12 September 1973 | 3 July 1974 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Patricio Carvajal Prado | 3 July 1974 | 20 April 1978 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Hernán Cubillos Sallato | 20 April 1978 | 20 March 1980 | Augusto Pinochet |
| René Rojas Galdames | 20 March 1980 | 14 February 1983 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Miguel Schweitzer Walters | 15 February 1983 | 19 December 1983 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Jaime Del Valle Alliende | 19 December 1983 | 7 July 1987 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Ricardo García Rodríguez | 8 July 1987 | 21 October 1988 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Hernán Felipe Errázuriz Correa | 22 October 1988 | 11 March 1990 | Augusto Pinochet |
| Enrique Silva Cimma | 11 March 1990 | 11 March 1994 | Patricio Aylwin |
| Carlos Figueroa Serrano | 11 March 1994 | 20 September 1994 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| José Miguel Insulza Salinas | 20 September 1994 | 21 June 1999 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Juan Gabriel Valdés Soublette | 22 June 1999 | 11 March 2000 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela | 11 March 2000 | 1 October 2004 | Ricardo Lagos |
| Ignacio Walker Prieto | 1 October 2004 | 11 March 2006 | Ricardo Lagos |
| Alejandro Foxley Rioseco | 11 March 2006 | 12 March 2009 | Michelle Bachelet |
| Mariano Fernández Amunátegui | 12 March 2009 | 11 March 2010 | Michelle Bachelet |
| Alfredo Moreno Charme | 11 March 2010 | 11 March 2014 | Sebastián Piñera |
| Heraldo Muñoz | 11 March 2014 | 11 March 2018 | Michelle Bachelet |
| Roberto Ampuero | 11 March 2018 | 13 June 2019 | Sebastián Piñera |
| Teodoro Ribera | 13 June 2019 | 28 July 2020 | Sebastián Piñera |
| Andrés Allamand | 28 July 2020 | 6 February 2022 | Sebastián Piñera |
| Antonia Urrejola | 11 March 2022 | 10 March 2023 | Gabriel Boric |
| Alberto van Klaveren | 10 March 2023 | Incumbent | Gabriel Boric |