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Chile miners: Camp Hope saw an ‘explosion of solidarity’

By Chris Kraul
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The makeshift village known as Camp Hope that sprung up around the Chile miners rescue operation is choked with media trailers, satellite trucks and family members’ tents.

Sen. Baldo Prokurica said the camp has seen an ‘explosion of solidarity’ among local businesses and municipalities helping with daily operations.

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Food has been provided for hundreds of people — relatives of the 33 trapped miners, government officials and media types -- in the form of three meals a day since late August. Cellphone carriers built additional towers to facilitate communication after the Aug. 5 collapse of the gold and copper mine. Even Rolly the Clown has donated his services.

‘Nobody pays for anything here,’ Prokurica said.

-- Chris Kraul in Copiapo, Chile

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Chris Kraul

Chris Kraul covered South America for the Los Angeles Times from his base in Bogota, Colombia. He joined the paper in 1987 and was business editor of the San Diego edition until it closed in 1992. He then began covering the border and Mexican economies until his assignment to The Times’ Mexico City bureau in 2001. He reopened the paper’s Bogota bureau in 2006. He has also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and also has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal.

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