America's first female secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, died at 84. Cancer patient, she was a symbolic figure in American politics between the 1990s and early 2000s.
First US ambassador to the UN, in the second term of Bill Clinton in the White House she was the highest able woman in the history of the government but for her there was no chance of succeeding at the helm of the country as she was born in the then Czechoslovakia. Of Jewish origin, she had moved after the annexation to the Third Reich and, after a stay in London, she had returned to her homeland at the end of the Second World War, to then go to the USA in 1948.
High school studies in Switzerland, degree in political science from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she had a doctorate in public law from Columbia University in New York, when she was already married to journalist Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, from whom she divorced in 1982.
During Clinton's tenure he helped shape American politics after the Cold War by supporting NATO enlargement and its armed intervention in Kosovo in spring 1999 for "humanitarian reasons". In 2000 he traveled to North Korea for a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Just a month ago he wrote an editorial in the New York Times on the war between Moscow and Kiev: "Instead of paving the way for great Russia, the invasion of Ukraine will mark Putin's infamy, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically in difficulty and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger and more united Western alliance ". Western sanctions "will devastate not only his country's economy but also his close circle of corrupt friends, who in turn could challenge his leadership. What will surely be a bloody and catastrophic war will drain Russian resources and cost Russian lives. at the same time creating an urgent incentive for Europe to cut its dangerous dependence on Russian energy. "
(Unioneonline / ss)
