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Chile miners: Rescuers free men with determined efficiency

By Chris Kraul
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Working with machine-like efficiency, Chilean rescuers continued freeing trapped miners Wednesday morning in an operation that was broadcast live to a world that had seldom felt smaller.

Rescuers continued to pull, man by man, the 33 miners who had been trapped half a mile below the earth’s surface for more than two months. Sounds of rejoicing filled the camp in the Chilean desert where hundreds of international media held vigil as the overnight operation continued into the day, under brilliant sunshine.

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-- Chris Kraul

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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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