Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann
|
The Reverend Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann M.M. |
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| President of the United Nations General Assembly | |
|
In office September 16, 2008 – September, 2009 |
|
| Preceded by | Srgjan Asan Kerim |
| Succeeded by | Ali Abdussalam Treki |
| Ambassador of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations | |
|
In office 29 March 2011 – 2011 |
|
| Preceded by | Abdel Rahman Shalgham |
| Succeeded by | Post Abolished |
| Foreign Minister of Nicaragua | |
|
In office 19 July 1979 – 25 April 1990 |
|
| Preceded by | Harry Bodán Shields |
| Succeeded by | Enrique Dreyfus |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 5, 1933 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Died | June 8, 2017 (aged 84) Managua, Nicaragua |
| Nationality | Nicaraguan |
| Father | Miguel Escoto |
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann M.M. (February 5, 1933 – June 8, 2017) was a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009, he presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He was also nominated as Libyan Representative to the UN in March 2011. He died on 8 June 2017 after suffering a stroke for several months.
D'Escoto was born in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. on February 5, 1933. He was then raised in Nicaragua but was sent back to the United States to begin his high school studies in 1947.
D'Escoto felt called to serve as priest and entered the seminary of the Maryknoll Missionary Society in 1953. He was ordained a priest of the Society in 1961 before becoming engaged in politics. He earned a Master of Science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism the following year, and was a key figure in the founding of the Maryknoll publishing house, Orbis Books, in 1970. He served as an official of the World Council of Churches. As an adherent of liberation theology, he secretly joined the Sandinistas.
D'Escoto formed the Nicaraguan Foundation for Integral Community Development (FUNDECI) in January 1973 to promote a nongovernmental response to the displacement of thousands in the December 1972 Managua earthquake. He continued on as President of FUNDECI, which operates in several departments in Nicaragua until his death in 2017.
...
Wikipedia