and have that as your predominant thought? Or, more likely, you thought of it ages ago and thought this was the perfect opportunity to relay your hilarious observation. Let me start by qualifying what I am about to say by saying that I'm in Chile and have been for three years. I've seen the earthquake and the miner's ordeal. Chileans are a fairly resilient bunch and when the chips are down they huddle together and pull one another through. The media coverage of both the earthquake and the miners was very sensationalized by the English speaking western media. True, the country was shaken by an extremely large earthquake but casualties were minimal and I had full internet access six hours later. True, 33 miners got trapped almost a kilometre underground but they survived . Life for those miners was not any better before the accident than it is now. To portray them as having social, family or financial problems now suggests that they didn't exist before. Being a miner's wife is not a bed of roses. Often these women have to put up with the womanising, gambling and the violent habits of their spouses. This articles is not entirely misleading but it does suggest that the mining incident may be responsible for issues that have long existed in the mining community here in Chile. Also this article was extremely long (and a little dull), I'm sure it was well intentioned. BeatriceD 17 July 2011 3:59AM S you have an accident