Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, dies at 84.
Colin Powell was the first African American to serve as US Secretary of State.
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General Colin L. Powell, the first African American to serve as US Secretary of State, He died this Monday at 84 years of age from complications related to COVID-19.
This was indicated by his family in a message on the social network Facebook, in which he pointed out that he had lost “an extraordinary and loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great American.”
The statement indicated that the American general had received the complete vaccination schedule.
Powell was Secretary of State to Republican President George W. Bush between 2001 and 2005 and previously served as the chief of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first Gulf War (1989-1991).
The four-star general, born in New York, died at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, located just outside of Washington.
Despite being one of the most influential generals of recent decades, Powell lived one of the most complicated moments of his career was a controversial presentation in 2003 before the UN Security Council where he defended the military intervention in Iraq by ensuring that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Later, he recognized that it was a mistake and supposed “a stain” in his political career.
Although belonging to the Republican party, he distanced himself from the conservatives in recent years, since last year he asked for the vote for Democrat Joe Biden, and he did the same in 2016 when he supported the candidacy for the White House of Democrat Hillary Clinton, instead of Republican Donald Trump.
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