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A relative reacts after it was announced that a drill reached the trapped miners at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, Saturday. A drill reached the miners at a point 2,041 feet (622 meters) below the surface at 8:05 a.m., after 33 days of drilling. AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko A way out, at last, for Chile's 33 trapped miners MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean d...
Chile's president says it will take three years to rebuild the region wracked by an earthquake and tsunami, something all too clear to the people cleaning up this splintered tourist town. Dichato is nestled between pine-forested hills and a lovely sheltered bay where colorful fishing boats served coastal communities and export companies. Its population of 4,000 triples each January and February with tourists — many were in town when disaster struck — and residents count on that brief summer vacation for much of their inc...
Rescuers found signs of life in a quake-toppled building this morning as the world offered aid to victims of a catastrophe that killed m o r e than 700 p e o p l e. T r o o p s a n d p o l i c e cracking down on looters arrested dozens of people for violating a curfew. "We are confronting an emergency without parallel in Chile's history," Chi lean President Michel le Bachelet declared Sunday, a day after the magnitude- 8.8 quake — one of the biggest in centuries — killed at least 708 people and destroyed or badly damaged 500,...
