Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state who helped guide Western foreign policy after the Cold War, died Wednesday. She was 84 years old.
The death was confirmed in an email to staff at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm founded by Albright. The former secretary was a central figure in President Bill Clinton’s administration.
She championed NATO expansion, lobbied for the alliance to intervene in the Balkans to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing, sought to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons, and defended human rights and democracy around the world.
Albright was the leading spokeswoman for US foreign policy in the decade between the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror triggered by the September 11, 2001 attacks, an era heralded by President George HW Bush as a “new world order”. .
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Source: CNN Brasil
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