Brazil–Chile relations

Brazil-Chile relations

Brazil

Chile

Brazil–Chile relations are the interstate relations between Brazil and Chile. Chile and Brazil have acted numerous times as mediators in international conflicts, such as in the 1914 diplomatic impasse between the United States and Mexico, avoiding a possible state of war between those two countries. More recently, since the 2004 Haiti rebellion, Chile and Brazil have participated in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, which was led by the Brazilian Army.

According to a 2014 BBC World Service poll, 62% of Chileans view Brazil's influence positively, with only 12% expressing a negative view.

Although Chile is one of the two South American countries that do not share a border with Brazil (along with Ecuador), there is frequent direct air traffic for passengers and cargo between the two countries, as well as overland routes crossing Argentina or Bolivia, with or without passing through Paraguay or Uruguay depending on the route.

The acronym Brachileno is commonly used to refer to communities of descendants and residents of one country in the other, as a symbol of unity and cultural syncretism. The community of Chileans residing in Brazil is the second-largest Chilean diaspora in South America and the sixth-largest worldwide.