Chile to start freeing miners on Tuesday night

Veronica Quispe, wife of Bolivian miner Carlos Mamani who is among the 33 miners trapped underground in the San Jose Mine, holds her national flag with the words, "Your family is waiting for you," as she stands on a hill above the area where the rescue operation continued in Copiapo Oct 11, 2010. [Photo/Agencies]

Chilean health minister Jaime Manalich (R) inspects with a hospital director, the bed clothes that will be given to any of the 33 trapped miners that need urgent health care in the hospital room prepared for them in Copiapo Oct 11, 2010. [Photo/Agencies]