When approximately 2,500 Chilean exiles (including businessmen, professors, and students) arrived in Great Britain escaping the right-wing military coup d'etat of September 11, 1973, they were met by a small community of Latin Americans who were already there. In the 1970s right-wingers fled the Allende government, and later persecuted Allende's sympathizers escaped the Pinochet regime. The Chilean community has settled well in the country, and the majority are of European ancestry.SOCIAL IDENTITY Marta Fierro Social Psychologist. The size of the Chilean British population is hard to estimate as many have gone back to Chile, or move fluidly between several places.Diversity news page
