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The success in rescuing 33 trapped Chilean miners is tempered with anger and sorrow that something similar was not tried when 65 miners died in northern Mexico in 2006.
"We've watched all the efforts and the will to return the miners to their families alive," relatives of the Mexicans wrote in a letter to the Chilean families this week. "We never saw that here."
The 65 were trapped inside the Pasta de Conchos coalmine after a methane explosion, only about 150 meters below the surface or less than a quarter of the depth at which the Chilean miners survived for two months." The search lasted only five days before it was called off.
