Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died after complications from COVID-19 – In Memory

Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell has died after complications from COVID-19. This was announced on his Facebook page. According to a publication shared there by his family, Powell was fully vaccinated.

The 84-year-old New York-born Powell is also a former chief of staff.

The first black secretary of state of the United States helped shape major foreign policy directions in the last years of the last and beginning of this century. Powell was secretary of state between 2001 and 2005, during George W. Bush’s first term, and played an important role before the US operation in Iraq overthrew Saddam Hussein.

In the 1990s, in addition to the success of the Gulf War, he was for some time considered a possible contender for the first black president of the United States. However, his reputation was damaged when, as Secretary of State, Bush offered false intelligence to the United Nations in support of the war in Iraq, according to which Saddam Hussein was holding weapons of mass destruction.

He had a long career in the army and served in Vietnam. He was also the first black national security adviser at the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency (1987-1989). He headed the staffs (also the first black man in office, and the youngest to hold it) during the time of the next head of state, President George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993).

The period in which he held the highest position in the Pentagon was also filled with a number of crises – from the invasion of Panama in 1989 to Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf (1990-1991).
Details coming later at www.dnevnik.bg.

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