National feast of Italian friendship association with Cuba concluded

Rome, Jun 29 (Latin Press) The IV Party 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.

June 29, 2025
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This Sunday’s program will be dedicated to the Cuban medical brigade that provides assistance to the people of the Calabria region, and will have the participation of members of the group of doctors who work in this southern Italian region, who will share their experiences, noted a statement.

The Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Gerardo Hernández, attend this celebration who arrived on June 23 in Italy, invited by the Anaic, to carry out an extensive program in several cities of the country, which will take until July 9.

The national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, a deputy and member of his country’s Council of State, will also be present at the III International Meeting Europe for Cuba, to be held early next month in the northern city of Venice.

The feast of the Anaic began last June 27 in the Convent of San Francisco and San Antonio, Salerno, with the conference on Santería, between Catholicism and resistance, by the Cubans resident in Italy Ulises Mora e Irma Castillo, promoters of the cultural project Timbalaye.

In this initial day, coordinated by Loredana Marino, Anaic representatives, , the anthropologist Laura Marchetti, as well as Luigi de Magistris, former European parliamentarian and former mayor of Naples took the floor.

Last Saturday, at 17:30 local time, an Anti-Fascist Table was held, with the participation of writer Sonia Zanotti, jurist Mirelle Fanon, Cuban sociologist Indira Pineda, Venezuelan consul Esquia Rubín, and filmmaker Loredana Macchietti, President of the Gianni Minna Foundation

There was later a panel coordinated by the president of the Anaic, Marco Papacci, with the theme Cuba: the Island in defense of humanity in the trumpian era, where the Cuban ambassador to Italy, Mirta Granda, Gerardo Hernández, as well as the journalists Annalisa Capaldo, Erminia Pellecchia and Giorgia Bozzetto took the floor.

Today, in addition to the session dedicated to the solidarity work of Cuban doctors in Calabrian hospitals, there will be a debate, coordinated by the former president of the Anaic, Irma Dioli, with the theme Peace beyond wars.

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