Where to follow diplomatic life in Chile

Diplomatic life in Chile leaves a record. Each of the 72 foreign missions accredited in Santiago publishes its appointments, its national days and its agreements, and the state maintains official documents setting out who is who and how things are done. The material exists and most of it is free. What happens is that it is scattered, and anyone who wants to follow it has to know where to look.

This guide gathers the main sources.

The Diplomatic Guide

This is the base document. It is published by the Directorate of Ceremonial and Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lists, country by country, the missions accredited in Chile with their heads of mission and addresses. The current version is dated 25 March 2026 and downloads as a PDF from the Ministry’s website.

For any question about who represents a given country today, this is the reference, and it corrects at once any outdated figure circulating elsewhere.

The Regulation of Public Ceremonial and State Protocol

It answers the questions nobody knows where to look up: how precedence among authorities is ordered, how official ceremonies are conducted, what place the diplomatic corps holds at a state occasion. It is also available on the Ministry’s site.

It is a technical text, but it reads without difficulty and explains the scaffolding that holds up everything else.

Revista Diplomacia

The Chilean Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello” has published the journal Diplomacia since March 1974, on the initiative of the Academy’s then director, ambassador Mario Barros Van Buren. Eight hundred copies of the first issue were printed.

It is a space for doctrine and analysis: foreign policy, security, international trade, strategic studies. And it has a little-known advantage: the historical collection from issue 1 to 106, that is from 1974 to 2006, has been digitised and is available to consult and download. Thirty-two years of Chilean diplomatic thought, free and online.

Each mission’s own channels

Every embassy communicates its own activity, and in detail: receptions, visits, agreements, the cultural programme of its binational institutes. It is the richest source and also the most scattered, because there are 72 separate streams across different sites and feeds.

For a specific matter (a national day, the arrival of an ambassador, an agreement) the mission’s own channel usually has the fact first and at first hand.

The Foreign Ministry press room

For the other side of the relationship, what Chile does in the world, the press room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes tours, bilateral meetings, trade agreements and the work of Chilean embassies abroad.

A map, not an archive

These five sources cover the essentials, but each answers a different question. The Guide says who is who, not what they did. The Academy’s journal analyses, it does not narrate. Each mission tells its own story.

Anyone wanting to follow Chilean diplomatic life closely will have to visit them all, and at different intervals: the Guide changes a few times a year, the Regulation almost never, and the missions’ channels every day.

Source: Diplomatic Guide (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, version dated 25 March 2026), Regulation of Public Ceremonial and State Protocol and the Chilean Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello”.