The 33 trapped Chilean miners: It's possible that only 32 want to come out

Here we go with a direct translation of this report:

Chile: One of the trapped miners 700 metres underground in the San José mine might not want to be rescued, due to the fact that his wife recently met his lover at the entrance to the mine.

The wife of Yonni Barrios, Marta Salinas, and Barrios's lover, Susana Valenzuela, were both waiting that the mine for news of the rescue when they met for the first time.

Salinas was surprised when she heard Susana shouting her husband's name amongst a group of mine family members.

The wife, 56, admitted to being 'horrified. However she is determined to stop her rival from winning her husband.

Salinas commented to her friends, "Barrios is my husband. He loves me and I'm his wife. That woman has no legitimacy."

However, Valenzuela has said that the 50 year old mine, who she met during a training course five years ago, was planning to leave his wife to be with her. Continues here

"We're in love. I'll wait for him", added Valenzuela.



UPDATE: Oh Lordy, the guy is toast now. The Sun is now running the same story in EngLang. Well, I suppose he could end up selling the book rights to Murdoch...

UPDATE 2: Hold crap it's getting worse! Thanks for the headsup from reader 'Anibal' left in comments to this report that includes:

"....At least five wives have been forced to come face to face with mistresses whose existence was kept from them by their husbands, who have been trapped more than 700 metres below since a cave-in on Aug 5. One miner has four women fighting in an effort to claim compensation....."

Mark Sanford, Maria Belen Shapur and Bunge (BG)

It turns out that this South Carolina dude Sanford was doing things with a certain Maria Belen Shapur, who works for soybean people Bunge (BG) in their Buenos Aires office. The good news for Argentina is that right now its GDP is clicking up a notch or two thanks to the number of gringo journalists suddenly swarming round the Palermo barrio of town. A friend lives a couple of doors away from the alleged lair of Shapur and says the road is currently blocked due to linguistically challenged hacks and their photographers.

Meanwhile, sombrero tip to RG over at mexfiles for this screenshot photo of Sanford on Fox News yesterday....subliminal advertising, anyone?

God Bless the moral leadership you guys up there offer....an example to us all.