| Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones | |
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| Headquarters of Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications in Santiago | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 8 July 1974, as Ministry of Transport) and 20 April 1977, as Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications) |
| Preceding agency |
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| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Chile |
| Headquarters | Calle Hermanos Amunátegui 139, Santiago |
| Employees | 1,113 (2020) [1] |
| Annual budget | 1,109,154,952 CLP (2020) [2] |
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| Website | www |
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.
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]
Its structure consists of two Undersecretariats and four dependent bodies:
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.
| No. | Minister [8] | Party | Start | End | President | ||
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| 1 | | Enrique Garín Cea | Military | 8 July 1974 | 8 March 1976 | Augusto Pinochet Ugarte | |
| 2 | | Raúl Vargas Miquel | 8 March 1976 | 20 April 1977 | |||
| No. | Minister [8] | Party | Start | End | President | ||
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| 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 | Incumbent | Gabriel Boric Font | |