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The present article deals with the political-diplomatic relations between Italy and Chile since the rise of fascism until the beginning of the 1930s. In particular, a special focus is devoted to the visit of the famous fascist journalist and writer Mario Appelius to Chile in 1929. Indeed, the study of that visit allows to assess the number of initiatives endeavoured by the Rome government with the purpose of gaining ground in Chile, as well as the features of the future actions of the fascist regime aimed at projecting his presence in the country. Moreover, the visit revealed the special attention that Mussolini regime paid for the Italian-Chilean community and for the local political dynamics. The article is mainly based on primary sources, drawn from the Historical-Diplomatic Archive of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ASDMAE), from the Italian Central State Archive and from General Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile.

Every time Latin America comes to the attention of Italian public opinion due to political turbulence and street protests, Italy is generally taken by surprise. Suddenly the Latin American region is represented as an exotic land, victim of an unmotivated collective hysteria that overwhelms everything with its devastating fury, institutions, societies, economies. Stereotypes of a distant time resurface, some of them originating in the nineteenth century, when European and American travellers and merchants contributed to the construction of an image of backwardness and incivility of the subcontinent. The truth is that dissent, discontent, rebellion and numerous other phenomena recur "periodically" in Latin America, because they have to do with structural problems that have never been solved, problems inscrutable to superficial analyses that do not take into proper consideration the history of this region

This article deals with some aspects of political–diplomatic relations between Italy and Latin America in the period between the immediate post–World War II period and the mid–1950s. This is a period not yet investigated by historiography, except for some works by Aldo Albónico, based on a first analysis of the Italian diplomatic documentation – which date back to the end of the 1980s – and the subsequent ones by Ludovico Incisa di Camerana. The article is based, as well as on the existing literature, on the collection of Italian diplomatic documents, to date until June 30, 1952, and, as regards the Chilean case, on the documents available at the Historical–Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Este artículo propone algunas reflexiones acerca de la recepción de los acontecimientos chilenos y sobre las contradicciones que caracterizaron la conducta del partido de mayoría relativa en Italia, puesto en jaque por sus responsabilidades y por las divisiones de la democracia cristiana chilena en ocasión del golpe de estado de 1973 . En relación directa con este problema, analizaremos la falta de reconocimento de la junta militar por parte de Italia. Estas dos temáticas se analizan principalmente en las semanas inmediatamente sucesivas a la conquista del poder por parte de los militares golpistas.