Chile–Mexico relations with representatives of the United States and Mexico in Niagara Falls, Canada to ease the tension between the two nations and to avoid war, which afterwards did not occur. On 11 November 1974, then-Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez severed diplomatic relations with Chile a year after the unconstitutional removal and death of elected President Salvador Allende by General Augusto Pinochet. For the next fifteen years, Mexico would receive thousands of Chilean refugees who were fleeing the dictatorship of Pinochet. Both nations re-established diplomatic relations on 23 March 1990. Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, both nations have increasingly become closer
Constitutional Court of Chile three years, and can not be re-elected. The Constitutional Court can work as a United Court ("Pleno") or divided in two Chambers ("Salas"). In the event a quorum is below the legally required, deputy ministers ("ministros suplentes"), or substitute attorneys ("abogados integrantes") are designated. The court's president has the power to break a tie. Constitutional Court of Chile The Constitutional Court of Chile ("Tribunal Constitucional de Chile" in Spanish) is Chile's constitutional tribunal. It is not part of the judicial branch and is functionally independent of the Congress and the President. The Constitutional Court was created in 1970, under the