General Debate speaker

Castro

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for El Salvador, between 1947 and 1950 — 8,852 words in all. The longest was 1950, at 2,839.

Also recorded as “CASTRO”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 4 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

02,5005,0001947: 2,073 words1948: 1,729 words1949: 2,211 words1950: 2,839 words19471950
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1947 2 not recorded 2,073
1948 3 not recorded 1,729
1949 4 not recorded 2,211
1950 5 not recorded 2,839

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

human rights 9 self determination 6 cold war 2 poverty 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 4 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Castro said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

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