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Chilean President Lands Chopper on Busy Highway
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsChile's billionaire president has cultivated a can-do image, piloting his own private helicopter and swooping in to hug 33 miners as the world rejoiced in their dramatic rescue last year. Sebastian Pinera's latest feat involved landing his chopper in the middle of a busy highway south of Santiago and shrugging off the emergency landing with characteristic swagger. "Came up short on fuel," he told a shocked police officer, with a smile. But not everyone was amused. Pinera's political foes are calling for an investigation into his impromptu landing Saturday. One opposition lawmaker, Camilo ...
Chilean Miners Can't Escape a Soccer Defeat
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(Oct. 26) -- Even the 33 Chilean miners can't win them all. After surviving a mine shaft collapse, months of darkness and a harrowing journey back to safety through a tunnel the width of a basketball hoop, the rescued miners finally met their match. They were beaten in a soccer game this week against their country's president and the rescuers who saved them. Hours after a formal reception at the presidential palace Monday with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, many of the miners swapped their suits for cleats and headed for the soccer field to take on the president, government officials ...
Pinera Reshuffles Latin America's Political Deck
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(Oct. 20) -- Only a decade ago the scene would have been unimaginable: a Chilean miner -- an icon of the political left -- hugging a right-wing politician once tarred for his ties to a cruel dictatorship. But there it was, the 10-second hug between the billionaire Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Luis Urzua, the miners' foreman, replete with firm and heartfelt back slaps. If viewers were rapt worldwide, Chileans were transfixed. A number of political preconceptions seemed to fall like scales in the dramatic rescue of the 33 miners from the San Jose mine. Pinera, long suspected of ...
Chilean Miners Consider Book and Hollywood Deals -- Cautionary Tales Abound
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyChile is experiencing what could be called 'egalitarian capitalism.' This rare sentiment of prosperity for all is captured in a photo of the country's president, Sebastian Pinera, surrounded by the recently rescued gold and copper miners in their hospital gowns and bathrobes wearing newly acquired $450 Oakley sunglasses (to protect their eyes from the sunlight that they had not seen for 69 days). Cable news ratings surged as viewers remained riveted for hours while the men were brought up one by one. We have not heard any first-person accounts yet of their ordeal because none have given ...
Happy, Exhausted Miners Face New Challenges
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(Oct. 14) -- As the 33 Chilean miners rescued this week reunite with loved ones and gulp fresh air for the first time in 69 days, attention is turning to how these lucky survivors will handle their new status as folk heroes. There's also the question of what will happen to Camp Hope, the cluster of tents in the Atacama desert that captured the world's attention -- and hearts -- for more than two months. Workers are striking down the camp today and relatives are collecting their belongings from the spot where they kept vigil as close to the trapped miners as they could get -- 2,000 feet above ...
Chile Leader Tells Mom Her Son Will Be First Out
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (Oct. 12) -- The president of Chile has made it official, telling the mother of Florencio Avalos that he'll be the first of 33 men to be rescued from the collapsed mine where they've been trapped for 69 days His mother, Maria Silva, says he's not surprised he was chosen and that she's very proud of him. President Sebastian Pinera teased the journalists gathered on a viewing platform to await the rescue, saying he's pretty sure the first one out will have the last name of Avalos. There are three men with that name trapped below. Florencio's mom confirmed to The ...
First Chilean Miner Expected to Surface Tonight
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(Oct. 12) -- Chilean rescuers are just hours away from hoisting the first miner up back to safety, officials say. "We hope to finish the day with at least one miner on the surface," Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told CNN this afternoon. Rescue teams have been working nonstop to make final preparations for a late-night start to what the world hopes will be the end of 33 trapped miners' record-breaking survival underground. The process of hoisting each miner to the surface was set to begin at midnight Wednesday but is ahead of schedule. Chilean President Sebastian Pinera ...
Escape Shaft Nearly Reaches Chile's Trapped Miners
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN JOSE MINE, Chile (Oct. 8) -- Drillers neared the lower reaches of a gold and copper mine where 33 men have been trapped for more than two months, preparing Friday for a breakthrough that would unleash a national outpouring of joy. Engineers had just the last 128 feet (39 meters) of rock to carve through, and were working carefully to keep the T130 drill from jamming or punching through with too much force, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said. "We are very close," Golborne said. "It would be very complicated if after all the work we have done ... you lose the hole. We have to be very ...
Chilean President Sees End in Sight for Trapped Miners
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (Oct. 5) -- Chile's president said Monday that his government is "very close" to pulling 33 trapped miners to safety and he hopes to be there in person to see the rescue before leaving on a trip to Europe. It was Sebastian Pinera who told the miners after they were found alive Aug. 22 that they would be saved by Christmas, and his government has assembled a team of hundreds to support them while three simultaneous drilling operations pound escape shafts through a half-mile of rock. The drilling has gone well enough to move up the date since then, but rescue leaders have ...
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