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When the collapse occurred were pirqueros who volunteered to penetrate into the mine to rescue thirty-three to force a pick and shovel. La oferta de los pirqueros conmovió a la audiencia, sobre todo porque llegó cuando la tecnología aún no daba resultados. The offer of the pirqueros thrilled the audience, especially because it came when the technology was not yet results. Pero la oferta fue rechazada, lo cual generó un duro debate y un aluvión de críticas al plan del gobierno. But the offer was rejected, which caused a fierce debate and a barrage of criticism of the government's plan.

The Chilean miners are too close to Billy Wilder for comfort



We should heed Wilder's warning in Ace in the Hole, his 1951 satire about a hack who will do anything to keep his story alive

The week's most dramatic news story had, for me, a weird echo with cinema. In the northern Chilean city of Copiapó there has been wild rejoicing, combined with the sober sense of a strange ordeal ahead. Thirty-three people had been trapped inside a collapsed mine for 17 days, but at the beginning of this week rescue workers established contact with the men – who were basically safe and sound, having been trained for precisely this eventuality and strictly rationed what little food they had while drinking water from their diggers' radiators.

But there are to be no immediate scenes of the men emerging from their hell to be hugged by sobbing relatives – far from it. They must resign themselves to months of waiting underground while their rescuers, with »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog ... lly-wilder

Notes for the Underground


FOR the past two decades, NASA has been studying what happens to people when they are enclosed in small spaces for long periods of time. The research has yielded insights that might be of use to the 33 Chilean miners, who are likely to be trapped underground for months.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opini ... ml?_r=2&hp