September 2010
Chile miners: rescue joy must not derail focus on why mine collapse happened
While there is much to celebrate today – primarily that the names of the miners will not be added to the long list of men and women in Chile who have lost their lives in the workplace – the spectacle of the rescue should not overshadow the importance of the question: how could this have happened in the first place?
Watch a video about “pirquineros” – Chilean artesanal miners (in Spanish)