Trapped Miners Out By Oct. 15, Chile's President Says

[Dulcinea]

Source: NPR

Chile's president has said that drilling engineers are "very close" to rescuing the 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped for two months in an underground shaft.

"We are very close to rescuing them, and I hope to be able to rescue them before leaving for Europe" on Oct. 15, Sebastian Pinera told a group of Chilean radio broadcasters Monday. "We are trying to adjust the two schedules."

When the men were discovered alive in the gold and copper mine on Aug. 22, Pinera told them they would be rescued by Christmas. Since then, his government has assembled a massive team to support three simultaneous drilling operations to sink escape shafts through a half-mile of rock.

The trapped miners, who have received supplies from the surface and remained in video contact with their families, were doing remarkably well, despite their prolonged isolation, a NASA psychologist told NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday.


Read more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130347696

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Let us hope.

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1. Yes! If I was religous, I'd pray, but instead I will wish on a star!

[Peace Patriot]

2. Does this not seem like an odd statement?

"We are very close to rescuing them, and I hope to be able to rescue them before leaving for Europe" on Oct. 15, Sebastian Pinera told a group of Chilean radio broadcasters Monday. "We are trying to adjust the two schedules." --from the OP (my emphasis)

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This rightwing billionaire president has "other business" in Europe and is "adjusting" the "two schedules" so he can be at the mine in all his glory as The Great Rescuer when the miners finally emerge?

Apart from the unfortunate (?) wording, is he RUSHING the rescue to fit HIS schedule, and will this put the trapped miners in further peril?

Something lost in translation?

I don't know. But these statements really jumped out at me as...weird. (Perhaps weirdly honest?)

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4. If he knows it would be unacceptable politically to be outside the country

on such a great, and emotionally stratospheric day, he will avoid missing it. Maybe he, like myself, would give anything to be there and welcome these brave men back to the daylight.:grouphug: :pals: :hug: :loveya:

[truthisfreedom]

3. WTF is this ad doing on DU?