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Chilean miner mario sepulveda in the beige and green suit celebrated being rescued on oct. Pablo neruda wrote a poem to the miners of the north, and chilean students grow up reading books such as baldomero lillos sub terra, a collection of earlytwentiethcentury stories about. The mindboggling story of 33 chilean miners trapped 2,000 feet underground for 10 weeks. Hector tobar is a pulitzer prizewinning journalist and a novelist. Journalist hector tobar had exclusive access to the miners, and his.
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