Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (Chile)


The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications 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.
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, which until then had been responsible for transport-related functions.
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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.

Structure

Its structure consists of two Undersecretariats and four dependent bodies:Undersecretariat of Transport headed by Jorge Daza Lobos.Undersecretariat of Telecommunications headed by Claudio Araya.Metropolitan Public Transport Board headed by Paola Tapia.Civil Aeronautics Board, headed by Martín Mackenna Rueda.Executive Secretariat for Digital Development National Road Safety Commission
Additionally, the ministry serves as a liaison between the government and autonomous state-owned companies such as the State Railways Company, Metro S.A., Correos de Chile, and the ten port companies created through the corporatization of EMPORCHI.

List of ministers

Ministers of Transport (1974-1977)

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Ministers of Transport and Telecommunications (since 1977)

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