Premier Matteo Renzi said
Tuesday that traveling in Latin America has reminded him of when
starvation and destitution drove hundreds of thousands of
Italians to migrate across the ocean in search of a better
future.
"We often live our lives in subjugation to demagoguery and
fear," Renzi wrote on Facebook in a diary of his Latin America
tour, which ends when he leaves Cuba tonight.
"I think about when the migrants were our grandparents,
about their nightmares and hardships, and about the gratitude
towards those who welcomed them".
The so-called Italian diaspora or large-scale migration
towards the Americas and Australia occurred in two waves, one
between the unification of Italy in 1861 and the 1920s rise of
Italian Fascism, and one after the end of World War II.
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