• USA Madeleine Albright: "What we see in Spain with Catalonia we already saw in Yugoslavia"

The former Secretary of State of the United States, Madeleine Albright, has died this Wednesday at the age of 84 due to cancer, her family confirmed in a statement on Twitter.

The relatives of what was the first woman to occupy that position in the country's history (between 1997 and 2000) explained that Albright died surrounded by her loved ones:

"We lose a dear mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend."

Albright was a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that was hesitant to get involved in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s:

the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Albright, who became the US ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, had pushed for a tougher line against the Serbs in Bosnia.

But during President

Bill Clinton

's first term , many of the administration's top foreign policy experts recalled how the United States got bogged down in Vietnam and were determined not to repeat that mistake in the Balkans.

The United States responded by working with NATO on the airstrikes that forced an end to the war, but only after three years.

Albright's experience as a refugee

prompted her to push for the United States to be a superpower

that would use that influence.

She wanted "muscular internationalism," said

James O'Brien

, Albright's senior adviser during the Bosnian war. She once angered a Pentagon chief by asking why the military kept more than a million men and women under arms if they never used them.

Early in the Clinton administration, while unsuccessfully advocating for a faster and stronger response in Bosnia,

Albright backed a United Nations war crimes tribunal

that eventually jailed the architects of that war, including Serbian President

Slobodan Milosevic

. and Bosnian Serb leaders.

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