Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell He died this Monday at 84 years old due to complications derived from COVID-19, as announced by his family.
The four-star general, who was appointed to the cabinet by George W. Bush, gained special worldwide media notoriety after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, when Washington deployed a new foreign policy. He starred in memorable presentations at the United Nations Security Council arguing in favor of intervention in Iraq.
“General Colin L. Powell, former Secretary of State of the United States and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications derived from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their thoughtful treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American, ”his family said in a statement.
His environment had not previously communicated his illness. The last public appearance was a month ago, at a rally in Washington for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Powell was chairman of the Army Joint Chiefs of Staff under George HW Bush during the 1991 Gulf War, in which US-led forces drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.
Although he identified as a moderate and pragmatic Republican for decades, he opposed Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016 and 2020, backing his rivals Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. After the attack on the Capitol last January, he disaffiliated himself from the Conservative party and called himself independent.
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