The former American state of state Henry Kissinger died Wednesday November 30, 2023 at the age of 100.
Henry Kissinger, a key actor in world diplomacy during the Cold War, led the foreign policy of the presidents Nixon and Ford.
Renowned to be a formidable negotiator, as susceptible as authoritarian, the former American state of the State had initiated the rapprochement with Moscow and Beijing but its image also remains linked to the 1973 coup in Chile.
The role of the CIA in Latin America, often under its direct impulse, tarnished its image, starting with the 1973 coup in Chile which brought Augusto Pinochet to power after the death of Salvador Allende.
Born on May 27, 1923 in Fürth in Bavaria, Heinz Alfred Kissinger, a young German Jew must take refuge at 15 in the United States with his family to escape Nazism.
Naturalized American at 20, this son of a teacher joined military counter-espionage and the American army which he follows in Europe as an interpreter in German.
Richard Nixon called him to the White House in 1969 as a national security advisor, then as Secretary of State. He remained in foreign affairs under Gerald Ford until 1977.
