Quotes from Hector Tobar

Go, Minister, give it all you've got. We trust you.

Todos los huevones!

Yeah, I should be in college, Mom, but I'm not. The world is my classroom, and one day I'll write a book, and that will be my degree.

ESTAMOS BIEN EN EL REFUGIO. LOS 33.

Lo logramos!

I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.

Lo logramos! "We did it!

All those bastards are alive! Alive! All of them!" ¡Están todos los huevones vivos!

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

Who's running things?

One day the "Good Morning Everyone" team announces that the government of the Dominican Republic has offered to bring all thirty-three miners and their families to a relaxing resort in that Caribbean island nation.

member of the O'Higgins team, González

Before he loved you, I suffered alongside him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I was his son before he even met you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Don't we need to be taken care of, too? "With all that money, the chicken coop [of relatives] gets all mixed up and the family gets warped," Jessica says.

Se siente rico! "It feels good in here!

Tranquilos, niños.

500 calories a day for the first few days, largely with an energy drink that's supplemented with potassium, phosphates, and thiamine, a B vitamin that the body uses up during starvation.

No te estoy huevando

Without thiamine, feeding the men could trigger Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a nerve disorder

Yo lo único que hago es vivir," he says. The only thing I do is live.

Corazón Valiente

Golborne is up to this point in his career a Stanford and Northwestern alumnus with a stellar corporate résumé, but he's never been someone who's had to think of himself as a man of the people. He's never had to make the concerns of the poor his own, and he's never known what it's like to be the public servant of people who want him to be strong and who are deeply suspicious of him at the same time.

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.

La mina está llorando mucho.

tomar la hueva