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A decade on, Chilean mining heroes, bitter and divided

AFP, 08 Aug 2020
Ten years after being trapped at the bottom of the San Jose mine in northern Chile, Mario Sepulveda dreams of returning to his trade. Jimmy Sanchez, the youngest of the group, is haunted by nightmares. And Jose Ojeda, the author of the famous message that announced to the world that they were alive, cries out for help. Many of "the 33 miners of Atacama" feel like heroes fallen into oblivion and abandonment.

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