Colin Powell, who was Secretary of State of the United States during the Presidency of George W. Bush, has died at the age of 84 due to complications caused by COVID-19, according to his family announced on Monday on the social network Facebook.
Powell was the first black American secretary of state. Military, he became a general of the Army, with the rank of General of Four Stars.
A New Yorker by birth, before heading the State Department he served as Chairman of the Army's Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1989 and 1993, during the administrations of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton.
