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"El socialismo puede llegar solo en bicicleta."

— José Antonio Viera-Gallo

January 1, 1970

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Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. — Title of an opinion piece published in La Tercera in 1972, when Viera-Gallo was Assistant Secretary of Justice in the government of Salvador Allende (after the 1973 coup d'état, he went into exile in Italy). Quoted as epigraph in Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity (Calder & Boyars, 1974) p. 11. See: "Ministro Viera Gallo recibe primer Proyecto de Ley para fomentar uso de la bicicleta", Ministerio Secretaria de la Presidencia (9 March 2009)

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Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. — Title of an opinion piece published in La Tercera in 1972, when Viera-Gallo was Assistant Secretary of Justice in the government of Salvador Allende (after the 1973 coup d'état, he went into exile in Italy). Quoted as epigraph in Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity (Calder & Boyars, 1974) p. 11. See: "Ministro Viera Gallo recibe primer Proyecto de Ley para fomentar uso de la bicicleta", Ministerio Secretaria de la Presidencia (9 March 2009)