General Debate speaker

Padilla Nervo

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Mexico, between 1948 and 1962 — 24,342 words in all. The longest was 1957, at 6,402.

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

05,00010,0001948: 2,445 words1949: 1,307 words1953: 3,679 words1957: 6,402 words1958: 6,344 words1962: 4,165 words19481962
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1948 3 not recorded 2,445
1949 4 not recorded 1,307
1953 8 not recorded 3,679
1957 12 not recorded 6,402
1958 13 not recorded 6,344
1962 17 not recorded 4,165

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

disarmament 35 nuclear weapons 26 self determination 11 outer space 9 human rights 6 poverty 4 colonialism 1 decolonization 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Padilla Nervo 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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