Sebastián Piñera’s Final Lesson
By
Brian Winter
The late Chilean president was a rare example of how to build bridges across the ideological divide.
Almost immediately after former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera died in a helicopter crash this week, the tributes started coming in. Some of them were quite unexpected. “As everyone knows, we didn’t have the same ideas,” Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president, wrote on social media. “But we were always united by a relationship of much respect: He was a man of the (ideological) right, but deeply democratic. I remember with affection his sense of humor and the warmth of his family, whom I met in Chile. For them, all my condolences.” The...
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