About Dicoex

Direction of Chilean Communities Living Abroad –DICOEX (in Spanish) -proposes, coordinates and develops policies aiming at engaging Chilean nationals, both men and women, to the motherland. Dicoex also looks forward to advancing its nationals human rights in their host countries.
In cultural terms, this Division promotes national identity preservation, as well as the inclusion of the Chileans abroad in the development of the country.

Main tasks:

•    Permanent contact with the Chilean community abroad.
•    Defence of the Chilean community human and social rights, regardless of their place of residence.
•    Promote  activities that strengthen the exercise of civilian rights in Chile and abroad.
•    Provide updated information about Social Security Laws, bilateral international agreements about migrations, validation of studies, degrees and titles.
•    Empower Chilean organizations abroad.
•    Enable the networking among Chileans abroad according to their areas of expertise.
•    Encourage the sentiment of national identity among communities.
•    Help improve the capacity of the Chilean associations leaders abroad, in terms of  enhancing their organizational skills.
•    Coordinate the program “Government in the field”, which takes regular services (social security, identity cards, pensions, etc.) that are usually given to the population en Chile in public buildings, to small villages abroad, located far away from our Consulates.


Dicoex Director: Raúl Sanhueza Carvajal
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Phone: 56+2+8274495