President Sebastian Pinera with the rescued Chile miners

President Sebastian Pinera with the rescued Chile miners

The last trapped miner Luis Urzua

  Rescue workers celebrate as the "Phoenix" rescue capsule carrying the last trapped miner Luis Urzua 
approaches the surface at the San Jose mine in Copiapo

Continúan rescatando a los mineros atrapados en Chile

Al minuto: ¡Ya son 26 los mineros rescatados!

Alfonso Avalos , father of trapped miners Florencio and Renan Avalos, arrives at Copiapo hospital to visit Florencio, who was the first to be rescued from the San Jose mine, October 13, 2010. Renan is expected to be the 25th to be rescued. Nineteen of 33 trapped miners have been rescued from the gold and copper mine in Chile's northern Atacama desert in a painstaking operation still under way.

Trapped miner Jorge Galleguillos arrives at Copiapo hospital for a full checkup after he was rescued from the San Jose mine 

Trapped miner Victor Zamora arrives at Copiapo hospital for a full checkup after he was rescued from the San Jose mine 

Trapped miner Edison Pena arrives at Copiapo hospital for a full checkup after he was rescued from the San Jose mine 

Trapped miner Johnny Barrios hugs his girlfriend Susana Valenzuela after reaching the surface to become the 21st to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo

A photographer observes rescue operations for 33 trapped miners in the San Jose mine in Copiapo 

Trapped miner Samuel Avalos kisses his wife after reaching the surface to become the 22nd to be rescued from the San Jose mine as Chile's President Sebastian Pinera  claps in Copiapo 

Trapped miner Pablo Rojas embraces his son after reaching the surface to become the 19th to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo 

Trapped miner Samuel Avalos celebrates as he emerges from the "Phoenix" rescue capsule

Trapped miner Victor Segovia emerges from the "Phoenix" rescue capsule after surfacing to become the 15th to be rescued from the San Jose mine

Miner Jhonny Barrios Rojas is carried on a stretcher after his rescue from the San Jose Mine

Trapped miner Johnny Barrios hugs his girlfriend Susana Valenzuela 

A photographer observes rescue operations for the 33 trapped miners in the San Jose mine in Copiapo

Trapped miner Johnny Barrios hugs his girlfriend Susana Valenzuela after reaching the surface to become the 21st to be rescued 

Trapped miner Samuel Avalos waves as he emerges from the "Phoenix" rescue capsule after reaching the surface to become the 22nd to be rescued from the San Jose mine 

The 33 trapped miners rescue

Chilean miner Florencio Avalos is embraced by President Sebastian Pinera after he reached the surface as the first of the 33 trapped miners to be hoisted to safety, at the San Jose mine in Copiapo

Miner Jimmy Sanchez is helped out of the capsule after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine 

Mario Sepulveda celebrates with rescue workers after becoming the second miner to reach the surface at the San Jose mine in Copiapo 

Rescued miner Juan Andres Illanes Palma, third miner to be rescued, salutes at his arrival to the surface from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he was trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile

Isabel Allende and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera take part in a ceremony for the start of the oil drill platform operation, at San Jose mine

 Isabel Allende and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera take part in a ceremony for the start of the oil drill platform operation, at San Jose mine, near Copiapo, . Chile marked 200 years of independence, with the nation's attention split between official celebrations and the fate of 33 men trapped deep inside an underground mine since August 5

Romina and Rossana Gomez, relatives of Mario Gomez, one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine prepare food at the camp

Romina  and Rossana Gomez, relatives of Mario Gomez,
one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine, prepare food at the camp near Copiapo

Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile fire a powerful laser into space

Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile fire a powerful laser into space to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere

The miners trapped underground inside the mine at Copiapo

Relatives of the miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine, gather around a screen that shows the miners inside the mine at Copiapo, north of Santiago

Lucas Wilchez controls the ball against Tobias Albarracin

Lucas Wilchez from Colo Colo controls the ball against Tobias Albarracin of Bolivia's Universitario Sucre 

“Estamos bien en el refugio los 33” " We are ok in the refuge, the 33 miners"

 Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine, that reads in Spanish“Estamos bien en el refugio los 33” " We are ok in the refuge, the 33 miners" in Copiapo, Chile

Claudio Bravo fails to pull of a shot from ndres Iniesta

 Claudio Bravo fails to pull of a shot from Andres Iniesta 

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Spain's Gerard Farres Guell rides his Aprilia motorcycle

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Spain's Gerard Farres Guell rides his Aprilia motorcycle during the fourth stage of the Dakar 2010 Rally between Fiambala, Argentina, and Copiapo, Chile, on Jan. 5. Spain's Marc Coma won the stage of the off-road race, which runs through Jan. 16

Ruben Faria, a KTM rider from Portugal

Ruben Faria, a KTM rider from Portugal, during the fourth stage of the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally.
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