it is the most important factor making it difficult for them to return to normality. Angus Macqueen's naive statement that "It is shocking to think that Ariel Ticona has gone back to the mines to earn a living" illustrates his lack of understanding of the motivations of ordinary men wanting to get back to the normal lives they knew after being temporarily thrust into an unaccustomed blaze of publicity. I shall watch his documentary with interest although it is not hard to read between the lines here the outlines of a political agenda forming. "I lost all sympathy for them when they went to old Trafford. I'd rather be in a hole than at old Trafford." If that's how you feel surely you should have more sympathy for them being forced to go there. But seriously, what a mean-minded little remark. As bad as they way they were treated there according to the story above. "So you have an accident at work and then you should be 'made for life'. Clearly this isn't tripping over in your office but insisting everyone be a 'victim' is a dangerous state of mind." From everything we know about the conditions of Chilean miners (like millions of other working people) they are victims from start to finish - of terrible living and working conditions, ie capitalist exploitation - while the Chilean president is a multi-millionnaire. They suffered a deeply traumatic experience due to the unsafe conditions they were forced to wok in. It is