Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (Chile)

Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications
Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones

Headquarters of Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications in Santiago
Agency overview
Formed8 July 1974 (1974-07-08), as Ministry of Transport) and 20 April 1977 (1977-04-20), as Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications)
Preceding agency
  • Ministry of Transport (1974-1977)
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Chile
HeadquartersCalle Hermanos Amunátegui 139, Santiago
Employees1,113 (2020)[1]
Annual budget1,109,154,952 CLP (2020)[2]
Agency executives
  • Louis de Grange, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications
  • Martín Rueda Mackenna, Undersecretary of Transport
  • Romina Garrido Iglesias, Undersecretary of Telecommunications
Websitewww.mtt.gob.cl

The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (Spanish: Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones, better known by its acronym, MTT)[3] is the Chilean ministry responsible for directing, supervising, coordinating, and promoting legislation on transport and telecommunications, as well as coordinating and promoting the development of these activities and ensuring compliance with the relevant laws, regulations, and standards. Its current minister is the civil engineer Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir, who has held the position since March 11, 2022, under the government of Gabriel Boric.[4][5]

It was created during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet through Decree Law No. 557 of July 8, 1974, thereby separating it from the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Obras Públicas, MOP), which until then had been responsible for transport-related functions.

Functions

The ministry’s main functions are to propose national policies in matters of transport and telecommunications, in accordance with government guidelines, and to exercise direction and oversight of their implementation; to supervise public and private companies operating transport and communications services in the country; and to coordinate and promote the development of these activities, as well as to ensure compliance with the relevant laws, regulations, and standards.[6]

Structure

Its structure consists of two Undersecretariats and four dependent bodies:

  • Undersecretariat of Transport (Subsecretaría de Transportes, Subtrans) headed by Jorge Daza Lobos.
  • Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones, Subtel) headed by Claudio Araya.
  • Metropolitan Public Transport Board (Directorio de Transporte Público Metropolitano, DTPM) headed by Paola Tapia.
  • Civil Aeronautics Board (Junta Aeronáutica Civil), headed by Martín Mackenna Rueda.
  • Executive Secretariat for Digital Development (Secretaría Ejecutiva de Desarrollo Digital)
  • National Road Safety Commission (Comisión Nacional de Seguridad de Tránsito, Conaset)[7]

Additionally, the ministry serves as a liaison between the government and autonomous state-owned companies such as the State Railways Company (Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado, EFE), Metro S.A., Correos de Chile (Chile Post), and the ten port companies created through the corporatization of EMPORCHI.

List of ministers

Ministers of Transport (1974-1977)

  • Parties:
  – Military
No. Minister[8] Party Start End President
1 Enrique Garín Cea Military 8 July 1974 8 March 1976 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
2 Raúl Vargas Miquel 8 March 1976 20 April 1977

Ministers of Transport and Telecommunications (1977-2026)

  • Parties:
  – Military
  – Independent
  – Christians Democratic Party (PDC)
  – Socialist Party (PS)
  – Party for Democracy (PPD)
  – Political Evolution (Evópoli)
  – Broad Front (FA)
No. Minister[8] Party Start End President
1 José Luis Federici Ind. 20 April 1977 14 December 1979 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
2 Caupolicán Boisset Mujica Military 14 December 1979 10 August 1983
3 Enrique Escobar Rodríguez 10 August 1983 7 July 1987
4 Jorge Massa Armijo 7 July 1987 21 October 1988
5 Carlos Silva Echiburu 21 October 1988 11 March 1990
6 Germán Correa Díaz PS 11 March 1990 28 September 1992 Patricio Aylwin Azócar
7 Germán Molina Valdivieso PPD 28 September 1992 11 March 1994
8 Narciso Irureta Aburto PDC 11 March 1994 28 September 1996 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
9 Claudio Hohmann Barrientos 28 September 1996 11 March 2000
10 Carlos Cruz Lorenzen PS 11 March 2000 7 January 2002 Ricardo Lagos Escobar
11 Javier Etcheberry Celhay PPD 7 January 2002 3 January 2005
12 Jaime Estévez Valencia PS 3 January 2005 11 March 2006
13 Sergio Espejo Yaksic PDC 11 March 2006 27 March 2007 Michelle Bachelet Jeria
14 René Cortázar Sanz 27 March 2007 11 March 2010
15 Felipe Morandé Lavín Ind. 11 March 2010 14 January 2011 Sebastián Piñera Echenique
16 Pedro Pablo Errázuriz Domínguez 16 January 2011 11 March 2014
17 Andrés Gómez-Lobo Echeñique PPD 11 March 2014 14 March 2017 Michelle Bachelet Jeria
18 Paola Tapia Salas Ind. 14 March 2017 11 March 2018
19 Gloria Hutt Hesse Evópoli 11 March 2018 11 March 2022 Sebastián Piñera Echenique
20 Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir Ind. 11 March 2022 11 March 2026 Gabriel Boric Font
21 Louis de Grange Concha Ind. 11 March 2026 Incumbent José Antonio Kast Rist

References

  1. ^ "Anuario Estadístico del Empleo Público en el Gobierno Central 2011-2020" (PDF) (PDF). Dipres. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Ley de presupuestos del sector público Año 2020" (PDF) (PDF). Dipres. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  3. ^ "MOP anuncia medidas para este fin de semana ante masivo regreso de vehículos a la región Metropolitana: desde "peaje a luca" a 3×1 en carreteras". El Mostrador (in Spanish). 25 February 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Ministerio de Obras Públicas". Government of Chile. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Boric assumes the presidency in Chile: news and reactions to the change of command". as.com. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Reseña Institucional". Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Nombran a Johanna Vollrath como nueva Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CONASET". Comisión Nacional de Seguridad de Tránsito (in Spanish). 7 October 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  8. ^ a b Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: registros de los ciudadanos que han integrado los Poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo (2nd ed.). Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello.

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