Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera died on February 7. He was known as a "studious, persevering, hardworking" and "intelligent" man.

He had hundreds of conversations with the former president over a long period of time. He says he got to know him very well, humanly and politically, and has a high opinion of him. The former president was "a president for our time," says ex-president Eduardo Frei, who was his vice president.