President Sebastián Piñera of Chile and his wife, Cecilia Morel, in the Paranal Control Room

President Sebastián Piñera of Chile and his wife, Cecilia Morel, in the Paranal Control Room on 5 June 2012. In the background we see (from left): the Director of the Observatory, Andreas Kaufer; the President of the ESO Council, Xavier Barcons; the Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw; ESO’s Representative in Chile, Massimo Tarenghi; and ESO astronomer Fernando Selman, from Chile. President Piñera participated in observations of the Carina Nebula with the VLT Survey Telescope.