Editing Fernando Flores (section)

==Politics==

Flores was [[Finance Minister]] of president [[Salvador Allende]] in the early 1970s and later the Secretary General of the Government and, during the Coup, he was alongside the President in [[La Moneda Palace]]. After the coup d'état he was imprisoned, subjected to prolonged, systematic psychological torture and later driven to exile by the military regime of [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name="Network World">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Network World]]|last1=Jacobs|first1=Paula|title=Nothing Interrupts Fernando Flores Workflow - Profile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Fernando+Flores++Chilean&pg=PA63|access-date= October 8, 2014|volume=11 |issue=16|publisher=IDG Network World|date=April 18, 1994}}</ref> Prior to being appointed Finance Minister by Allende, Flores was responsible for launching and overseeing [[Project Cybersyn]], "one of the most ambitious applications of cybernetics in history."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Medina |first=Eden |title=Cybernetic revolutionaries: technology and politics in Allende's Chile |date=2011 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-29738-7 |edition=Online-Ausg |series=The MIT Press Ser |location=Cambridge, Mass}}</ref>

In 2001 Flores was elected senator for the [[Tarapacá Region]], as a member of the center-left [[Party for Democracy (Chile)|Party for Democracy]] (PPD), a constituent party of the governing coalition ''[[Concertación]]''.

On March 31, 2010 he was designated President of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness by President Piñera, position that he held until September 2013. In this role he was responsible to produce a report that he entitled ''Surfing into the Future''.<ref>{{cite web |date=2013-09-01 |title=Surfing into the Future |author=Consejo Nacional de Innovación para la Competitividad |url=https://docs.consejoctci.cl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SURFING-TOWARDS-THE-FUTURE-1.pdf |access-date=2024-02-07}}</ref>