Source: Internet By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront C hile has been known in history as the world’s second-largest copper mine pit. There was a time when the copper minefields at Chuquicamata, El Salvador mine and El Teniente became to be known as “ Chile’s salary .” The area had self-sustained settlements, own rail networks, schools, stores, and even their own police forces. Che Guevara’s memoirs, The Motorcycle Diaries , present an anguish of sorts after visiting the place which he had read about only in books, where mining workers were ill-treated by their bosses. When he and his friend, Granada visit the mining country, they meet a homeless communist couple searching for work. “ By the light of the single candle … the contracted features of the worker gave off a mysterious and tragic air … the couple, frozen stiff in the desert night, hugging one another, was a live representation of the proletariat of any part of the world ,” Che wrote. These moments in Chile ...