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"Workers kept some factories running and neighboring plants traded materials to maintain production."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"During the strike, trucks stopped delivering food, fuel and factory supplies, roads were blocked, shops closed and much of Santiago’s privately owned bus fleet ceased operation."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"By 16 October 1972, the truckers’ strike had spread into central Chile, shopkeepers and small businesses had joined, and professional groups were considering joining."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State (Eliot) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)

Source authors Theodore L. Eliot Jr.

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"Within days, truckers across Chile joined the strike, followed by retailers and professional associations."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Aysén transport associations protested CORFO’s decision to establish a state-run transport enterprise."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Carta N° 805 - Empresa de Transportes

Source authors Sergio Anfossi Muñoz

Source year 1972

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"What became El Paro de Octubre started in Aysén, where a truck owners’ association protested the government’s plan for a state-owned trucking company."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The telex network used machines acquired by a previous Chilean government during the 1960s."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Cybernet, a network of existing telex machines, helped coordinate transport and supplies during the October 1972 strike."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Before the October 1972 strike, officials within Allende’s government worried that Cybersyn might concentrate authority within CORFO or impose technocratic management."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Tinker Trucker Soldier Strike

Source title Networked Information and Industrial Output: Evidence from Chile’s 1972 Truckers’ Strike

Source authors Sebastian Edwards

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Beer warned that Cybersyn’s technical tools could become instruments of oppression if detached from the system’s political and organizational commitments."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES From IBM to AGI

Source title Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile

Source authors Eden Medina

Source year 2006

Confidence high

Importance high