Quotes About Miners

They trick the sense of time, so that once inhabiting there you always mean to go away without quite realizing that you have not done it. Men who have lived there, miners and cattlemen, will tell you this, not so fluently, but emphatically, cursing the land and going back to it. For

I'd been deeply affected by my contact with the miners, not only because of their kindness, but because they'd taken this potentially hellish place and made it, if not heaven, at least human; through their simple rituals of eating, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, praying, playing, and talking, they'd created civilization in one of the most impossible places to imagine it. And what seemed like a miracle to me was, to them, just another day at work!

En 1978 el Mundial de Fútbol redujo las movilizaciones a cuarenta pero ya en 1979 se declaró la primera huelga general dispuesta para el 1º de Mayo por el "Grupo de los 25" que reunía gremios combativos como taxistas, camioneros, cerveceros, mineros y otros.