Three reasons to reread The 33, the rage to survive, by Héctor Tobar

4/10/2020, 6:10:05 PM

Breathtaking and breathtakingly honest, the work of the American novelist and journalist tells the true story of the Chilean miners buried alive for two months.

Intelligence works miracles

They stayed two and a half months underground, 700 meters deep, in a mine that had collapsed on itself. For the first few weeks, they didn't even know if the outside world cared about them. In these kinds of circumstances, if the emergency services do not discover survivors within six days, they give up. It was in Chile ten years ago. These thirty-three men buried alive were all saved. Collective intelligence sometimes works miracles.

No deaths in the mine

Héctor Tobar, a great American reporter, Pulitzer Prize, was chosen by the survivors to tell their story in a book. He talked for hundreds of hours with the miners, their families, the drillers, psychologists, doctors or the Minister of Labor, who, against all odds, decided to do everything to find these men, without knowing if they were alive. It was one of the miracles of this case,