{"id":198940,"date":"2026-07-15T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/07\/intervento-di-antonio-tajani-al-forum-libertas-con-i-paesi-dellamerica-latina\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:07:33","slug":"intervento-di-antonio-tajani-al-forum-libertas-con-i-paesi-dellamerica-latina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2026\/07\/intervento-di-antonio-tajani-al-forum-libertas-con-i-paesi-dellamerica-latina\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech by Antonio Tajani at the Libertas Forum with Latin American countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his speech at the \u2018Libertas Forum\u2019 in Madrid, Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani outlined the Italian Government\u2019s commitments to the region: \u201cWe are here in Madrid, at this important summit with our Latin American brothers and sisters, to reaffirm the Italian Government\u2019s strong stance in favour of democracy, freedom and the rule of law throughout Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear,\u201d added Tajani, \u201cwe have absolutely nothing in common with the views of extremist governments such as that of Nicaragua, a country that still harbours dangerous terrorists from the Red Brigades, such as Alessio Casimirri, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy.\u201d We want to step up our efforts so that freedom may spread throughout the Latin American continent, which is united with Europe by our shared Christian and democratic values. Latin America is a crucial part of the West. The Italian Government will be committed to this struggle for freedom and democracy, and for an ever-closer relationship between Europe and Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his speech at the \u2018Libertas Forum\u2019 in Madrid, Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani outlined the Italian Government\u2019s commitments to the region: \u201cWe are here in Madrid, at this important summit with our Latin American brothers and sisters, to reaffirm the Italian Government\u2019s strong stance in favour of democracy, freedom and the rule of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":198922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[398,9,28],"class_list":["post-198940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-america-latina-e-caraibi","tag-europa","tag-ministro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198943,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198940\/revisions\/198943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}