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America Latina e Caraibi

Press Releases
10 December 2019
Deputy Minister Sereni starts her visit to Brazil in Sao Paulo

Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni started her visit to Brazil in Sao Paulo. In the city, home to almost 5 million citizens of Italian descent and approximately 600 Italian companies, the Deputy Minister met with the Vice Governor of the State of Sao Paulo, Rodrigo Garcia, to reaffirm the two Countries’ historic ties of friendship […]

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Press Releases
2 December 2019
Two Venezuelan opposition MPs arrive in Italy

Mariela Magallanes and Americo De Grazia, two Venezuelan opposition MPs, arrived at Fiumicino Airport today. The two MPs, both with a dual Italian-Venezuelan nationalities, found a safe haven at the Italian Embassy in Caracas on 8 and 9 May last after their parliamentary immunity had been revoked with the charge of having supported an attempted […]

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Diplomatic Network
28 November 2019
Merlo in Paraguay: pleased with our bilateral relations

Undersecretary Ricardo Merlo headed a mission in Paraguay, which brought together the Italian Consuls in Latin America for a coordination meeting held in Asuncion aimed at improving the services offered by our network to over 2 million Italians living on the continent. Innovation, digitalisation and best practices in providing services and communication to users were […]

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Press Releases
28 November 2019
Merlo in Paraguay: pleased with our bilateral relations

Undersecretary Ricardo Merlo headed a mission in Paraguay, which brought together the Italian Consuls in Latin America for a coordination meeting held in Asuncion aimed at improving the services offered by our network to over 2 million Italians living on the continent. Innovation, digitalisation and best practices in providing services and communication to users were […]

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Diplomatic Network
28 November 2019
The Amazon Rainforest: an exhibition on Italian pioneer, Ermanno Stradelli

Ermanno Stradelli (1852-1926) devoted his life to the study of the indigenous cultures of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An Italian traveller and researcher, he was one of the first to have contact with people from the most remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest through his photography.  An exhibition entitled “Ermanno Stradelli – pioneering photographer in […]

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Press Releases
20 November 2019
Brazil; Sereni highlights cooperation in sustainable environmental and social development

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni said that “the ‘Consorcio Nordeste’ experience was highly innovative and interesting” when she met the governors of the Consortium that grouped together nine states in eastern Brazil last July at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.  The visit by the governors of  Brazil’s Nordeste, which was meant to […]

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Interviews
19 November 2019
Sereni: Closeness ( El Mercurio)

My visit to Chile last 5-7 November, which apparently marked the first visit by a foreign Government after the beginning of social protests in October, was meant to express, on behalf of the Italian Government, a special message of sympathy and solidarity with this Country’s people and institutions.   The relations between Italy and Chile are […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 November 2019
Italian Culinary Week: Brazil targets youth

The Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte targeted youth, including the very young, in order to create life-long ties with Italian gastronomy. During Italian Culinary Week in the World, which will kick off on Monday throughout the Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic and consular network, Italian Chef Raffaele Autorino will hold a cooking laboratory for students of the […]

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Diplomatic Network
6 November 2019
​Buenos Aires: concert by harpist Raoul Moretti ​

The Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires presented “Harpscapes”, a harp concert by Maestro Raoul Moretti which is part of the programme of the ‘Vivacissimo Classica’ cycle of concerts. The concert is the outcome of a deep-reaching research into the pureness of the sound of a harp, with an essential but calibrated use of live electronics by […]

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Press Releases
4 November 2019
Bolivia – Merlo recieves Deputy Minister Almendras: call for dialogue

​The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ricardo Merlo, received, at his request and by delegation from Minister Di Maio, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Carmen Almendras, at the Farnesina.  The Undersecretary listened to the description provided by the Deputy Minister of the unrest and protests that occurred in Bolivia after the elections […]

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