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America Latina e Caraibi

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26 May 2017
Mexico – Conference on the Otomi groups of the Sierra Madre Orientale

At 7pm on 31 May, the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City will host Federica Rainelli’s conference “’Gente de costumbre’. Life and ritual practices amongst the Otomi of the Sierra Madre Orientale”. In the mountains of the Sierra Madre Orientale, between the Sierra Norte de Puebla and the Huasteca Sud, is a small tongue of […]

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19 May 2017
Signed at the Farnesina the MoU between the IILA and the FAO on food security and rural development in Latin America

On Friday 19 May, at  2:45 pm, the Farnesina hosted the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding between the IILA (the Italian Latin American Institute) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) on strengthening cooperation on issues of food security and rural development in Latin America. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) […]

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15 May 2017
Asunción Fashion Week

Grande successo di pubblico e mediatico ha riscosso la Celebrazione del Design Italiano, organizzata dall’Ambasciata d’Italia in Paraguay nell’ambito dell’Asuncion Fashion Week.  L’evento, diretto ad un pubblico di addetti ai lavori, si è realizzato nei giardini dell’Ambasciata, trasformati, per l’occasione, in splendida passerella per i grandi Marchi del nostro Design come Versace, Valentino, Pucci, Roberto […]

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8 May 2017
Argentina – Radiation physics discussed in Buenos Aires

The fundamental aspects of radiation physics are the central theme of a two-day international physics forum in Buenos Aires that features prestigious physicists from around the world. They will discuss innovations in non-destructive techniques that use ionising radiation and charged and neutral particles to probe matter, as well as their applications in the fields of […]

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Press Releases
4 May 2017
Statement by Minister Alfano on Venezuela

Minister Alfano: “We reiterate our serious concern and our condemnation of the growing violence, with which the popular protests currently taking place in Caracas and the rest of the country are being repressed. Expressing dissent is an inalienable right of citizens and must never be subject to intimidation or repression. We trust that the Venezuelan […]

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Interviews
28 April 2017
Giro: “Venezuela, siamo di fronte a un regime” (Unità)

Venezuela, ultimo atto. I morti delle ultime manifestazioni sono oltre 20, molti di più probabilmente. Le notizie scarse e contraddittorie, la violenza in aumento. Lo scontro tra governo e opposizione è totale e non ci sono apparenti alternative. L’esclusione dalle presidenziali prossime venture di Henrique Capriles, il più forte oppositore, (per una multa da l0$!) […]

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Press Releases
21 April 2017
Minister Alfano meets with the Argentinian Foreign Minister, Susana Malcorra

“The fact that over 40% of the Argentinian population is of Italian descent creates a particularly intense relationship with our Country, that stretches to all areas of activity: political, economic, cultural and academic. The swearing in of President Macri opened an intense season of bilateral visits at very high level,” said the Minister of Foreign […]

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Press Releases
21 April 2017
Alfano on Venezuela. Violence can never be the response to the population’s requests

“I am following with deep concern the development of the protests underway and I express my firmest condemnation of the violence witnessed in the past few days,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, on the street clashes in Venezuela. “I repeat that violence cannot be the response to the population’s […]

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19 April 2017
Brazil – Rio de Janeiro hosts concert by Venetian duo Gerbasi and Celeghin

The Italian Cultural Institute in Rio will host a Venetian concert by mezzosoprano Francesca Gerbasi and pianist and organist Silvio Celeghin at 12:30 p.m. on 20 April. The programme will include music by Antonio Buzzolla, Charles Gounod, Reynaldo Hahn, Guido Bianchini, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Alfredo Casella and Gioachino Rossini.

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18 April 2017
Buenos Aires – Nanni Moretti attends the BAFICI Independent Film Festival

“I believe in people. But I do not believe in the majority of people…” This is a famous quote by Nanni Moretti from his movie  ‘Caro diario’ (‘Dear Diary’), which will be screened at the BAFICI independent film festival, on Thursday, 20 April ( at  5:10 p.m at Theatre 4, Village Recoleta). The Festival will run from 19 to 30 […]

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7 April 2017
The Pleasure of Reading in Italian: Great Literature at the Embassy in Brasilia

Thursdays are dedicated to the “pleasure of reading in Italian” at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Our embassy is holding a series of readings of a number of Italy’s most important authors of contemporary literature. The series began on 13 March with Elena Ferrante’s “L’Amica geniale”. It continues on 27 April with Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Io […]

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6 April 2017
​Argentina – Nanni Moretti is a guest of honour at Buenos Aires Film Festival

Nanni Moretti will travel to Argentina to be guest of honour at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film – BAFICI,  running from 19 to 30 April in the Argentinian capital. The Festival will also screen the work of Walter Veltroni. The Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires have published the programme […]

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