Rome, June 29 (Prensa Latina) The 4th Festival of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (ANAIC) concludes today in the city of Cava dei Tirreni, in the southern province of Salerno, after three days of solidarity activities with that country.
This Sunday’s program will be dedicated to the Cuban medical brigade providing aid to the people of the Calabria region, and will feature members of the medical team working in that southern Italian region, who will share their experiences, according to a statement.
As a special guest at this celebration, Gerardo Hernández, a Hero of the Republic of Cuba, arrived in Italy on June 23rd at the invitation of Anaic (National Institute of Statistics and Census), to participate in a broad program in several cities across the country, which will run until July 9th.
The national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, a deputy, and a member of his country’s Council of State, will also be present at the Third International Meeting “Europe for Cuba,” to be held early next month in the northern city of Venice.
The Anaic festival began on June 27 at the Convent of San Francisco and San Antonio in Salerno, with a conference on Santería, between Catholicism and resistance, given by Cuban residents in Italy, Ulises Mora and Irma Castillo, promoters of the Timbalaye cultural project.
During the initial session, coordinated by Loredana Marino, representatives from Anaic, anthropologist Laura Marchetti, and Luigi de Magistris, former European Parliamentarian and former mayor of Naples, spoke.
Last Saturday, at 5:30 p.m. local time, an Anti-Fascist Roundtable was held, in which the writer Sonia Zanotti, the jurist Mirelle Fanon, the Cuban sociologist Indira Pineda, the Venezuelan consul Esquia Rubín, as well as the filmmaker Loredana Macchietti, president of the Gianni Miná Foundation, took part.
This was followed by a panel chaired by Marco Papacci, president of Anaic, on the topic of Cuba: The Island in Defense of Humanity in the Trump Era. Speakers included Cuban ambassadors to Italy Mirta Granda and Gerardo Hernández, as well as journalists Annalisa Capaldo, Erminia Pellecchia, and Giorgia Bozzetto.
In their interventions, the panelists addressed the current situation in the Caribbean country and its people’s struggle to defend their Revolution amid growing U.S. aggression, including a criminal economic blockade, aggravated by Cuba’s unjust inclusion on a list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.
Today, in addition to the session dedicated to the charitable work of Cuban doctors in Calabrian hospitals, there will be a debate, coordinated by the former president of Anaic, Irma Dioli, on the topic of Peace Beyond Wars.
The jurist Michela Arpicale will speak, along with Franco Dinelli, director of the Pax Christi Study Center, journalist Matteo Cosenza, and Italian diplomat Elena Basile.
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