America Latina e Caraibi

Cultural Diplomacy

29 November 2024

Bahia Blanca, Art and Food

The Consulate General of Italy in Bahia Blanca offered an original homage to maestro Giacomo Puccini on the centenary of his death. A multimedia show dedicated to the personal and artistic life of Maestro Puccini was organised in La Paloma, a historical building in Bahia Blanca. Professor Enrique Caride (music expert and critic, and long-time […]

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Press Releases

12 November 2024

Rome. Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Silli attends the conference “Rediscovering Central America and the Gran Caribe”

Today, Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Giorgio Silli took part in the conference “Rediscovering Central America and the Gran Caribe: Future Opportunities” at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome. “The Italian government is strongly committed to re-launching political dialogue with Central America – an area of the world to which so many Italians have emigrated […]

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Diplomatic Network

7 November 2024

Argentina – the Italian Embassy celebrates its first centenary

The residence of the Italian Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Fabrizio Lucentini, was the stage for a historic celebration commemorating the first centenary of the Italian Embassy in Argentina. This exclusive event brought together some 200 distinguished guests, highlighting 100 years of the Embassy’s work in strengthening political, commercial and cultural relations between Italy and Argentina. […]

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Press Releases

31 October 2024

Minister Tajani meets Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuelan opposition leader and Sakharov Prize winner for freedom of thought

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Sakharov Prize laureate for Freedom of Thought, Edmundo González Urrutia, at the Farnesina. While personally congratulating him on this esteemed recognition, a testament to González Urrutia’s courage and fight for human rights and democracy in Venezuela, […]

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Press Releases

29 October 2024

Undersecretary Tripodi’s mission to Paraguay – political relations, investment opportunities and consular and cultural issues

The Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, has been in Paraguay since yesterday. She will conclude her mission to Latin America there. In Asunción, she had a meeting with the Paraguayan Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs Victor Verdun and Trade Rodrigo Maluff, with whom she discussed the main topics […]

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Press Releases

27 October 2024

Santiago. Undersecretary Tripodi meets representatives of the Italian community

During her visit to Santiago, Chile, Italian Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Maria Tripodi was keen to listen to representatives of the Italian community in the country. The meetings coordinated by Ambassador Valeria Biagiotti were an opportunity for exchange and dialogue with representatives of the Italian community active not only in the business sector, but also […]

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Press Releases

26 October 2024

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Undersecretary Tripodi meets government authorities, entrepreneurs and members of the Italian community in Chile

Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, has been on a mission to Chile since yesterday, following her participation in the G20 summit in Brasilia. Close bilateral ties and further prospects for cooperation are at the heart of the agenda. The Undersecretary held fruitful bilateral talks with her counterpart in […]

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Press Releases

24 October 2024

Brasilia: Undersecretary Tripodi attends G20 Trade Ministers’ Meeting and meets counterparts from France, Spain, and Germany

On behalf of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Maria Tripodi, is in Brasilia to participate in the G20 Trade Ministers’ Meeting. The agenda includes discussions on the role of trade policies in environmental sustainability and global development, strengthening […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

24 October 2024

“M’illumino d’immenso” Award: the winners

Three out of the four award ceremonies scheduled for this year’s “M’illumino d’immenso – International Poetry Translation Award” have taken place. This competition, which began in Mexico in 2018, now spans four continents. On 14 October, at the Italian Cultural Institute of Mexico City, the prize for the 7th Edition of “M’illumino d’immenso” for translation […]

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Press Releases

21 October 2024

Undersecretary Silli’s participation in the International Cultural Diplomacy Observatory

Undersecretary Giorgio Silli today participated in the conference organised by the International Observatory of Cultural Diplomacy in Siena, an organisation that works to promote the Tuscan city on the international scene and to enhance its artistic, scientific, political, and economic heritage, with a view to providing meeting and dialogue opportunities. On the sidelines of the […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

18 October 2024

Lima celebrates Antonio Raimondi

The documentary exhibition ‘Tra due mondi: memoria e celebrazione di Antonio Raimondi in Italia e in Perù’ (Between Two Worlds: Memory and Celebration of Antonio Raimondi in Italy and Peru) was inaugurated at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lima. The exhibition encompasses two bicentenaries, the birth of Antonio Raimondi on 19 September 1824 and the […]

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Economic Diplomacy

17 October 2024

Sparkle announces its collaboration on new pan-regional submarine cable system in Central America

Sparkle, in collaboration with Liberty Networks, a leading provider of infrastructure and business connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Gold Data, a technology company focused on telecommunications infrastructure that provides international connectivity in the Caribbean and Latin America, will participate in the construction and marketing of the new MANTA submarine system. This will […]

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