The ghosts in the mine

Even in their hour of joy, Chile’s miners never forgot the union leaders who were ‘disappeared’ 37 years ago by their country’s military, with the assistance of the US

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What exactly was it about the rescue of the Chilean miners that we found so utterly and profoundly moving?

For more than 36 hours last week, an enormous television audience watched a real-life epic of almost unimaginably dramatic proportions.

Television has increasingly become trite and predictable, but here was an event so compelling and mesmeric that people across the globe could not leave their screens either to sleep or go to work.

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