RIP HENRY KISSINGER

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Five decades later his legaciy in question as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age 100.

He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.

In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut. 

During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy. 

From HuffPost "What is undeniable, on the occasion of his death, is that millions of Argentinians, Bangladeshis, Cambodians, Chileans, East Timorese and others cannot offer their opinion on Henry Kissinger’s legacy or the world he helped create, because they died at the hands of the tyrants Kissinger enabled."

The statement from Kissinger Associates did not give a cause of death. 

Born in Germany in 1923, Kissinger first came to the US in 1938 when his family fled Nazi Germany.

Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dead at 100

https://www.aol.com/news/henry-kissinger-american-diplomat-nobel-014546…

Henry Kissinger’s policies on Chile, Vietnam had deep impact on Latin America, U.S. Latinos

His support of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile is his “Achilles’ heel,” a scholar says, while in the U.S., the Vietnam War was one of the sparks of the Chicano movement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/henry-kissinger-policies-chile-viet…