America Latina e Caraibi

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23 March 2015

Argentina – Conservation of cultural treasures

The third international meeting on preventive conservation in museums, archives and libraries concludes today in Buenos Aries at the Historico Nacional del Cabildo museum. The event, which began on 16 March, enjoyed the support of the Italian Cultural Institute and featured interventions that included one on the restoration of the Bronzino crucifix from the Muse’e […]

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20 March 2015

Panama – Italian unification celebrated in music

The Embassy of Italy in Panama and the Italian Cultural Institute celebrated the 154th anniversary of the Italian unification with a concert held in the parliament building. The event, which was a great success, was a first for an Italo-Panamanian orchestra that was set up within the framework of a bilateral cultural accord consisting of […]

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19 March 2015

Bolivia – Italian projects become best practices at G7

Four Italian projects, developed by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the Farnesina, were included in the 2015 Accountability Report of the German G7 Presidency. The report focuses on biodiversity and its aim is to document and disseminate a series of best practices in that sector, achieved in synergy with other areas such […]

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18 March 2015

Argentina – 2015 edition of the “Lucio Fontana” Prize

The fourth edition of the “Lucio Fontana” Prize is under way, organised by the Consulate General of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Pirelli Neumaticos S.A.I.C. Participation is reserved for emerging artists of Italian descent residing in Argentina. Winners will be offered the possibility of a two-month stay in Italy for the purposes of developing their […]

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18 March 2015

Dei – Ecuador: 2015-2017 investment plan for strategic sectors gets go-ahead

The government of Ecuador presented an investment catalogue of over 94 projects for the 2015-2017 triennial, in the strategic sectors of energy, telecommunications and basic industries, with an estimated value of more than 37 billion USD. One of the plan’s main objectives is to strengthen all forms of energy production. Remaining prominent therefore are the […]

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13 March 2015

Italy-Cuba – Gentiloni meets with President Raul Castro in Havana

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni, currently on a mission to Cuba, met with President Raul Castro who “expressed great friendship toward Italy and satisfaction with bilateral relations”. Gentiloni announced his invitation to President Castro to visit Italy, the occasion for which could be the Italy-Latin America Conference in June, or the […]

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13 March 2015

Buenos Aires – Books, a journey into 16th century Venice

An erudite, exuberant and passionate journey into the daily life of 16th century Venice is what Isabella Palumbo Fossati Casa offers in her book “Dentro le case. Abitare a Venezia nel Cinquecento” (2013, 360 p., Editore Gambier Keller collana Recto/verso). The book was the result of the study of 600 state archival inventories that chronicle […]

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12 March 2015

Italy-Cuba: Gentiloni in Havana, Italy wants to help ease relations with US and EU

Minister Paolo Gentiloni is in Cuba to “contribute to opening up as much as possible the process of easing tensions with the United State and the EU”. This is the first visit to the island by a European minister since the start of the thaw with Washington. The mission, which takes place with negotiations on […]

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12 March 2015

Italia-Cuba: Gentiloni all’Avana, Italia vuole contribuire a distensione con Usa e Ue

Il Ministro Paolo Gentiloni e’ a Cuba, per “contribuire a rendere il più possibile aperto il processo di distensione con Stati Uniti e Ue”. Lo ha detto lo stesso Gentiloni, che e’ il primo ministro europeo a visitare l’isola dall’inizio del disgelo con Washington. La missione, che si svolge nel pieno negoziato tra Ue e […]

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11 March 2015

Mexico – SACE: 100 million in new projects considered

SACE, in 2013 the first European export credit firm to open an office in Mexico and that today boasts a 1.2 billion euro portfolio in that market (second in Latin America only to Brazil), is working on projects valued at 100 million euro in a wide variety of sectors, with the growing participation of SMEs […]

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10 March 2015

Buenos Aires – The art of Luiso Sturla

The Sala Roma of the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will host an exhibition from 10 to 27 March entitled “Poesia di vita a colori. Oli su carta di Luiso Sturla”. A recollection of travels in Europe and South America and of their diverse cultures and peoples. The artist was born in 1930 in […]

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10 March 2015

IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission – Joint Communiqué

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico José Antonio Meade co-chaired the sessions of the IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission today in Mexico City. Both ministers acknowledged the importance of the Bi-National Commission as the foremost institutional bilateral relations instrument. A tool by which […]

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