As Chilean miners below await rescue, strains test families above
September 05, 2010 23:37 EDT

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) –– As 33 Chilean miners begin their second month trapped 2,300 feet underground, there are tensions on the surface between some of their loved ones.

One miner's wife and lover have been keeping vigil. When the two realized they were praying for the same man, they had a very public argument, and the wife tore down a poster with the miner's photo that the mistress had set up.

The mistress taped her poster back up, and beneath several poems and prayers she had dedicated to him, she added: "Tu Senora," or "your wife."

Other relatives have been squabbling over who should get the miners' paychecks during the weeks or months it may take to rescue them.

The situation has forced the local government to take a few measures. The miners have been asked to send up a note designating who could get their $1,600 salary for August. And social workers have been brought in to sort out who gets boxes of food and other donated goods.

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If I were him I think it might be smarter to stay down there.

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If I were him I think it might be smarter to stay down there.