Chile’s 33 Miners Still Haunted By Their Past
Chile’s 33 Miners, Still Grappling With Their Past
22 Jan 2014
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28 Jan 2014 Alex Vega was present at the birth of his three children but cannot remember being there.
He forgets things, cannot concentrate and suffers mood swings. He is seeing a psychiatrist and is on medication.
More than three years after he and 32 other miners were rescued from the San Jose mine underneath Chile's Atacama Desert in a story that captured the imagination of the world, Alex still has nightmares.
"I'd wake up thinking I was inside a mine," he told the BBC.
