Hugo Chavez

After Chavez Uriel Heilman, JTA. The death of Hugo Chavez brings to an end a regime that cultivated hostility toward Jews where little existed before.  But Venezuela's Jews aren't breathing a sigh of relief yet. 

Hugo Chavez and the Jews Ben Cohen, JNS. Before Chavez’s assumption of power in 1999, Venezuela had no tradition of anti-Semitism.  But his relentless attacks on Jews have driven over 20,000 of them to leave.