This paper seeks to analyze the diplomatic and cultural role of José Antonio Soffia, the Chilean Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister based in Bogotá between 1881 and 1886.In order to improve Chile's image in Colombia and prevent its intrusion into the plans contemplated by the Chilean government at the end of the Pacific War, the text argues that Soffia sought to win the favor of the Colombian political and literary elite through cultural strategies.Knowing the literary tastes of the political class, Soffia took advantage of his vocation as a poet to link with it, promoting publishing projects, spaces of sociability and exchanges of books.Exercised for five years, this action won him the favor of the lettered circles, which changed his negative opinion against Chile and even honored Soffia, after his sudden death in 1886, as one of his own for their various contributions to Colombian culture.