On his third visit to Venezuela in the past nine months, Under-Secretary Giro met with Italian nationals in the cities of Caracas and Maracay. The large Italian community in that country \u2013 nearly 1.5 million \u2013 is a \u201chighly significant and strongly-rooted group for which the government\u2019s attention remains acute at this particularly delicate moment for Venezuela\u201d, the under-secretary asserted.<\/P>
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The Italo-Venezuelan Centre in the capital and Casa Italia in Maracay were the settings for an in-depth exchange of views with Italian community representatives (members of COMITES, CGIE, and Italo-Venezuelan associations) regarding the community\u2019s problems and prospects. Concerns for the economic situation were especially high (expropriations and difficulties accessing food and healthcare), in addition to political and social tensions that were liable to lead to rights violations. <\/P>
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Departing from the observation that \u201cour communities abroad are not a burden, but a resource to be tapped\u201d, the under-secretary also discussed the need to avoid the introduction of \u201csocial hate policies\u201d, urging the Italian nationals themselves to act as the agents of dialogue.<\/P>
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Participants in the encounters included the wives of Italo-Venezuelans Vincenzo Scarano e Salvatore Lucchese, respectively former mayor and police chief of the town of San Diego, and the mother of a student arrested during the protests that erupted earlier in the year.<\/P>
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The under-secretary\u2019s visit will continue with a series of institutional meetings and with representatives of Italian businesses operating in Venezuela.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On his third visit to Venezuela in the past nine months, Under-Secretary Giro met with Italian nationals in the cities of Caracas and Maracay. The large Italian community in that country \u2013 nearly 1.5 million \u2013 is a \u201chighly significant and strongly-rooted group for which the government\u2019s attention remains acute at this particularly delicate moment […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[398,399],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-america-latina-e-caraibi","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134283,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/134283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}