Chile Miners

A Year Later, Chile's '33' Are Mostly Unemployed

AP | By EVA VERGARA | Posted 10.04.2011

SANTIAGO, Chile -- One of the myths surrounding the 33 miners who were so dramatically rescued after being trapped for 69 days deep inside a Chilean c...

World Story Of The Year: Which Do You Choose?

Posted 05.25.2011

Haiti's devastating earthquake kicked off what was to be a truly turbulent year in global news. But the last year of the first decade of the 21st cen...

3 Miners Released From Hospital, Possibly All By Weekend

cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

The first of 33 rescued Chilean miners have arrived to joyous homecomings following their release from a regional hospital. More miners are expecte...

Cost Of Chile Mine Coverage Squeezes BBC News Budget

The Guardian | James Robinson and Damian Carrington | Posted 05.25.2011

The BBC has spent so heavily on its coverage of the Chilean miners rescue it is being forced to reduce its coverage of other major events, including ...

Johnny Barrios Rojas, Other Chile Miners' Private Lives Come To Light

AP | ANITA SNOW and MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — One is a great-grandfather four times over, another a 19-year-old dad. A third – the oldest – is 63, and has ...

Chile Mine Rescue To Begin Late Tuesday

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The first of 33 men was rescued Tuesday night after 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine, pulled to fresh air and freedom ...

Trapped Chilean Miners: Drill Finally Breaks Through To Mine

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Chile's trapped miners cheered and embraced Saturday when a drill punched an escape shaft into an underground chamber in ...

Brad Pitt, Chilean Miner Movie Producer? Plan B Reportedly Negotiating Rights

Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Pitt is negotiating the film rights for the Chilean miners' story, according to a Chilean paper. In addition, the Chilean miners may be negotiati...

Brad Pitt's Plan B Production Company Bids For Chile Miner Movie Rights

The Wrap | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment is in talks to buy film rights for the story of the trapped Chilean miners, a local news outlet in Santiago reported ...

Chile Miners KILLED Weeks After Mine Rescue

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Just two weeks after a dramatic rescue of 33 miners in Chile, two miners have been killed in the same region, reports the AP. Said Mariano Garrido of ...

Chile Miners Watch Live Soccer Match, Battle Infections

AP | PETER PRENGAMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Rescuers have sent down antibiotics and ointments and were working Tuesday to blast cool, dry air to 33 miners trapped a ...

Chilean Miner Plans To Run In Marathon

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground not only will attend Sunday's New York City Marathon – he...

A Chile Wind Blows CNN Some Good

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Reese Schonfeld

Given that CNN gained more viewers than its two rivals combined, I would suggest to my successors that they abandon talking about the news and start showing more of it.

A Moment For Sacred Metaphors: How The Chilean Miners Helped To Rescue Us

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Edward J. Murray

What a miracle the emergence of those Chilean miners is. My only hope is that the singularity and power of this months-long event will not simply disappear in a matter of days.

5 Chilean Miners Wed During First Public Reunion

msn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Five of Chile's 33 rescued miners are to have church weddings after surviving for more than two months trapped underground. On bended knee, the miners...

Chilean Miner Rescue, Celebration Gives New Meaning To Old Prayers

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

One of the many gifts the rescued Chilean miners presented us is a reminder that prayer, when viewed as poetry to be interpreted, can be as relevant and powerful today as the day it was written.

Chile Miners Return For Mass Near Rescue Site

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO and EVA VERGARA | Posted 05.25.2011

COPIAPO, Chile — Carlos Bugueno is out of the collapsed mine but still lives in close quarters, sharing his small wood-and-tin house with 16 rel...

Capitalism didn't save the miners

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Allison Kilkenny

The WSJ published a ridiculous article yesterday that claims Capitalism saved the Chilean miners, and opens with a boldface lie when writer Daniel Hen...

Shh! Chile Miners Keeping Mum

AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Three days after 33 men were sealed deep within a gold mine, Andre Sougarret was summoned by Chile's president. The Chil...

Rescued Chilean Miners Greeted As Heroes -- but They're Also Victims

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

The Chilean miners are being viewed as heroes, but some disagree with this characterization. Many in the labor movement complain that news accounts have ignored the poor treatment of workers by the mining company,

Comparing the Chilean Miners' Rescue to the BP Oil Spill

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

"Watching the miraculous rescue of the Chilean miners, though, I was struck by the similarity with the efforts to cap BP's runaway Macondo well in the...

Chile Miners Now Deal With Fame: TV Shows, Money, Vacations, Fans

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011

COPIAPO, Chile — The Chilean miners began their unfamiliar new lives as national heroes Thursday and got a taste of what awaits them outside the...

STAGGERING: Fox News Gets HUGE Numbers For Final Miner Rescue

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Fox News saw a staggering 7 million viewers as the final miner was rescued in Chile Wednesday night. The network averaged 7.066 million total viewers...

Chilean Ponchos: An Endorsement In Photos

Anya Strzemien | Posted 05.25.2011

Anya Strzemien

I was obsessed--obsessed!--with coverage of the Chilean miners' rescue yesterday. The survival, the reunions, the Oakleys, the mistresses...and the po...

For Every Rescued Miner In Chile, Hundreds Far Less Lucky

nytimes.com | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

Mining is one of the world's most hazardous professions, with a checkered safety record. For every miner who was rescued before the cameras this week,...