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Madeleine Albright

was a woman with guts.

She only had to look to the left of her torso to gauge her state of mind or intuit her position on this or another political matter.

It is there that

a jewel of which she made a universal language and, now that she has passed away, her main symbol for understanding

Let's start with an example.

In 1994, after the pro-

press dubbed her a

she donned

at her meeting with top Iraqi officials.

Albright, still the US ambassador to the United Nations, sent him a strong message regarding the sanctions imposed on Iraq and was the beginning of an

extraordinarily clever

The Iraqis took a more realistic position.

Although the snake was not an animal to his liking, he realized how simply it

or required primacy to a relationship."

It was as simple as choosing

The snake brooch in 1997, at a meeting with the Iraqis.

Yasser Arafat's gift butterfly pin

Madeleine Albright

be remembered as

but also for having invented that powerful new language through her jewelry.

During her tenure,

was the highest-ranking woman in American history.

She was committed to democracy, gun control, human rights, and

or dress was her particular statement of intent.

I chose

balloons if the context warranted

The leader of the Palestinian people,

In his hottest meetings he chose

With the owl he expressed wisdom and with the tortoise the need to take

He made the brooch part of

a very personal, subtle and intelligible mode of expression for everyone.

With him, she deliberately and ingeniously put his point of view or purpose first when initiating a dialogue with the leaders.

"I discovered that the jewels had become

," he declared then.

His interlocutors knew this and took it as a challenge.

With a zebra brooch in South Africa in 1997.

He liked sharing each other's story.

In September 2009, coinciding with the exhibition of her personal jewelry collection at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the former secretary published

a book in which she relates the meaning of the

that used during his diplomatic tenure.

Such was the success that the exhibition was moved to other presidential museums and libraries for nine years.

In 2017, Albright decided to

to a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American Diplomacy.

Some of its safety pins are antiques, like the aforementioned snake

but most of it is fine jewelry.

What matters is

and the opportunity to trace with them a visual journey through the international, political and cultural diplomacy of those intense years.

The story of the blue bird and the eagle

In 1996, Cuban fighter pilots shot down two unarmed civilian aircraft over international waters between Cuba and Florida.

After boasting of "destroying the balls" of his victims, Albright appeared with

with his head down as a sign of mourning for the deceased and propping up his complaint with it:

At the UN in 1996, with a blue bird

Another case: she was sworn in as Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. That day she had chosen

an unequivocal symbol of majesty, courage and power.

It was a shame that she missed her brooch and didn't look like she deserved.

It was a jewel of gold, silver, diamonds and rubies with a small pearl in the shape of a drop of salt water.

The message of the fleur de lis

One of his most remembered speeches is the one he gave in May 1997 to recall the transcendental role of his country in forging a peace agreement that ended three and a half years of

"The Dayton Agreements, signed on November 21, 1995, were an example of one of the great achievements of American diplomacy, and its principles will continue to guide us," said Albraight with a fleur-de-lis on his chest,

The glass ceiling snap

Her brooch in the form

was one of the most significant as a reflection of

in being the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of State and also of her commitment to equality.

She was delighted that

and sat next to her on December 6, 2013, at the ceremony on Capitol Hill, Washington, when she was given the highest honor for advancing women's human rights.

The occasion deserved it and the former secretary did not hesitate to place the pin that she baptized

bird of peace

One of her favorite brooches was a dove of peace,

the widow of Israeli Prime Minister Isaac Rabin.

She also presented him with a matching necklace accompanied by a letter:

so perhaps a dove needs reinforcements to create a reality of peace in the Middle East."

In 2000, when the Israelis and Palestinians resumed their secret contacts, Clinton sent her on a mission to reinvigorate the peace process.

was also the brooch of choice when she paid her respects to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda in 1997.

With Igor Ivanov and a missile pin.

interceptor missile

If anyone knew about Albright's jewelry, it was

Vladimir Putin confessed it to Bill Clinton.

On the first day of their meetings to discuss nuclear weapons, Igor Ivanov, then Foreign Minister, asked him intrigued

The secretary of state, shrewd as always, replied: "Yes, and as you can see, we know how to make them very small. You better be prepared to negotiate."

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