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Castiella

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS CASTIELLA

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1963-09-24

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1968-09-24

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1. “The name Venezuela evokes for me today the beautiful picture of its countryside, the picture of the Llanos, that immense inland area which stretches out majestically like a Venezuelan Castile. It brings to mind Lake Maracaibo, at the edge of the Caribbean Sea, where Alonso de Ojeda baptized Venezuela; the profile of the gigantic Andes, the spinal column of America, a road familiar to Spaniards in former times; and finally the mighty Orinoco, with its immense volume of water, opening up at its delta, as Columbus saw it, into a thousand streams and channels where herons dwell amid groves of green mangroves, providing metaphors for the dazzling prose of Rómulo Gallegos. 5.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)

2. “This session of the General Assembly is being presided over by Mr. Carlos Sosa Rodriguez of Venezuela. I should like, as representative of Spain, to address my opening words to him. 2. I address my good wishes not only to an illustrious friend, not only to a distinguished statesman and diplomatist whose achievements, as the head of his country's Mission to the United Nations, were doubtless the reason for his election as President of the Assembly; in his person I honour also Venezuela. 3. It is a Spaniard who speaks, and the name of any Spanish-American country arouses a profound echo in a Spaniard's soul; it brings to life a whole world of memories and hopes; it denotes something which is ours deeply, our own, an intimate possession that consists of two noble elements: understanding and affection. 4.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)