America Latina e Caraibi

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31 August 2017

Italy present at Carifesta, the Caribbean’s major creative arts and cultural festival

At the proposal of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Italy sponsored the participation of representatives of Italy’s and the Caribbean’s fashion sector at Carifesta, the region’s major creative arts and cultural biannual festival that recently closed in Barbados.   Italy was represented by a delegation of the Confederazione Nazionale Artigianato – Federmoda, led by the National […]

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Press Releases

29 August 2017

Alfano: “Italy expresses concern over the decision to declare persona non grata CICIG Commissioner Ivan Velásquez”

Alfano: “Italy, together with the European Union and the Countries supporting the United Nation’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), expresses concern over the decision Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales made a few days ago, to declare persona non grata CICIG Commissioner, Ivan Velásquez.  Our country has been strongly committed to supporting CICIG and more […]

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23 August 2017

Argentina – Dante’s Purgatory staged at the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires

The Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires is organising another event dedicated to Dante. Claudia Fernandez, professor of Italian language at the University of Buenos Aires and of Medieval Italian Literature at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquin V. Gonzalez, will deliver a ‘Lectura Dantis’ on the two Thursdays left in the month of August. […]

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21 August 2017

Peru – Lima hosts the exhibition “Orbitales” by Alex Caminiti

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima will open the exhibition “Orbitales” by Italian artist Alex Caminiti at 7 p.m. on Thursday, 24 August at the Galleria Mario Sironi. After a one-month stay in Peru, where he absorbed the local art and culture, the prolific artist now presents the work that he conceived and produced in […]

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Press Releases

20 August 2017

Alfano: “We call on the Venezuelan Government to restore democracy”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano: “We firmly condemn the decision of the constituent assembly to take upon itself the legislative powers attributed to the Parliament legitimately elected in compliance with the Constitution of 1999. It is a further step taken by Venezuela towards an autocratic regime, distancing it from founding […]

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7 August 2017

Italy participates in Cordoba International Literature Festival

The 7th edition of the International Literature Festival in Cordoba, Argentina will focus on “Migrations and refugees.” Organized by the EUNIC Cordoba cluster (Italian Cultural Institute, Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institut, Centro Cultural España Córdoba) the Festival opened on 3 August and will end on 7 August, and will enjoy the participation of Latin American and […]

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1 August 2017

Lima – “Futurismo e Velocità” on show at the Museum of Italian Art

The exhibition  “Futurismo e Velocità. La velocità in terra e nell’aria”, [Futurism and Speed. Speed on the ground and in the air], organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Lima in conjunction with the Museum of Italian Art, will close its doors on 6 August. Curated by Maurizio Scudiero, it showcases fifty works by several […]

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Press Releases

31 July 2017

Alfano: “I observe with great concern that in Venezuela they have proceeded to elect the members of the Constituent Assembly.”

“I observed with great concern that in Venezuela – in a climate of violence that caused numerous victims, worsening an already intolerable casualty toll – they have proceeded to elect the members of the Constituent Assembly despite the appeals of the international community to suspend an initiative that is not supported by the majority of […]

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17 July 2017

Surprising Peru, on show photographs by Ezio Macchione

After opening last week, the photographic exhibition “Surprising Peru” hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lima will run until 12 August. It is a unique look on a marvellous country through the photographic lens of Italian photographer Ezio Macchione. The collection of images of “Surprising Peru” displayed in the Institute’s Antonio Raimondi Hall are […]

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Press Releases

17 July 2017

Alfano “We are following what is happening in Venezuela with the greatest attention”

“We are following with the greatest attention what is happening in Venezuela and wish to express our solidarity to all of our fellow countrymen that, because of the Country’s current political and economic crisis, are going through a very difficult time. To alleviate their distress, the General Directorate for Italians Abroad has adopted, upon my […]

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10 July 2017

Alfano: “Condemnation of the violence episodes occurring in Venezuela”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, said, “We are  constantly following the situation in Venezuela with increasing concern.  We condemn, as also expressed by President Maduro, the recent violent episodes that occurred in Parliament, which also left Italian MPs injured. We wish to express our solidarity to them.  We hope that […]

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7 July 2017

Venezuela – Caracas: Lights on “Disìo. Nostalgia of the future”

An intergenerational, transmedia narrative and multicultural exhibition entitled “Disìo.  Nostalgia of the  future” will stay open to the public in Caracas until Sunday 9 July at the premises of the Italian Cultural Institute in the capital city. Curated by Antonello Tolve (with the contribution of Carolina Balzae Félix Suazo and the cooperation of Patricia Hambrona […]

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