Capriles, grandson of Holocaust survivors, calling for recount after losing Venezuelan presidency

Published on April 18, 2013

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, is calling for a recount after narrowly losing the country’s presidential election.

Leaving Venezuela

Published on March 28, 2013

Sitting outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., a small city north of Miami Beach, Paul Hariton recalled the dramatic night in 2002 when he and his wife decided to leave their native Venezuela.

With Chavez gone, Venezuelan Jews look warily to future

Published on March 12, 2013

The eyes of a dead man stare at visitors passing through immigration at Simon Bolivar International Airport. They follow drivers making the trek along the tortuous four-lane highway through a mountain range leading to town. And they reappear at public spaces throughout this city.

Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer ‘poisoning’ accusation

Published on March 12, 2013

Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said.

Iran clerics take Ahmadinejad to task for hugging Chavez’s mother at funeral

Published on March 12, 2013

Senior Iranian clerics have scolded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez's mother with a hug – a physical contact considered a sin under Iran's strict Islamic codes.

Palestinian city names street after Chavez

Published on March 11, 2013

A street in the West Bank city of al-Bireh was named for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

After lavish Chavez funeral, Maduro sworn in as interim president of Venezuela

Published on March 11, 2013

Nicolas Maduro, the handpicked successor of the late Hugo Chavez, was sworn in as the interim president of Venezuela amid opposition calls that the choice was unconstitutional.

This week in power: AIPAC, Chavez, Ukraine bomb, Soccer protest

By Danny Groner
Published on March 7, 2013

Long the bane of Venezuelan Jews, Chavez is gone. Now what?

Published on March 6, 2013

For more than a decade, Venezuelan Jews have been holding their breath, subject to the whims of a mercurial president who used his bully pulpit to intimidate, rail against Israel and embrace Iran.

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez dead from cancer

Published on March 5, 2013

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech on Tuesday.

Documents show Venezuela spying on Jewish community

Published on February 5, 2013

The Venezuelan human rights group Espacio Anna Frank says its goal is to promote tolerance by teaching the life story of the teenage diarist murdered by the Nazis.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins re-election, defeating grandson of Holocaust survivors

Published on October 9, 2012

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez won re-election, defeating Henrique Capriles Radonsky, the grandson of Holocaust survivors

July 10, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on July 10, 2012

Chavez allies turn on Venezuelan opposition leader

Published on February 14, 2012

President Hugo Chavez's allies are bombarding Venezuela's newly anointed opposition leader with attacks ranging from the legitimacy of the primary vote to his sexuality and Jewish roots.

Son of Shoah survivors to challenge Chavez

Published on February 13, 2012

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, will challenge President Hugo Chavez in upcoming elections.

Iranian, Venezuelan leaders rebuff U.S., joke about having nuclear bomb

Published on January 9, 2012

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal.

Ahmadinejad to visit Latin American nations

Published on December 29, 2011

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that he will tour four Latin American nations in January.

Rival to Chavez, demonized for his Jewish roots, is opposition’s new hope in Venezuela

Published on June 6, 2011

As someone who has spent his entire political career opposing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Gov. Henrique Capriles Radonski is accustomed to rough handling. But even he was taken aback by the viciousness that erupted two years ago outside the yellow walls of the old colonial home that now serves as his government seat.

Grandson of Holocaust survivors to challenge Chavez

Published on May 5, 2011

The governor of Venezuela’s Miranda state, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, announced he will challenge President Hugo Chavez next year. Governor Henrique Capriles Radonski said he wants to be “president of all Venezuela.” The state of Miranda includes part of Caracas. Capriles said he will seek the endorsement of what has been a divided opposition. In an effort to field a unified candidate, the opposition has scheduled a primary for February 2012.

Chavez tells Israelis: Disobey ‘genocidal’ government

Published on September 4, 2009

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the Israeli people not to support their government, which he described as genocidal on Friday, the second day of his trip to Syria.

Q&A with Argentine Ambassador Hector Timerman

Published on October 23, 2008

" . . .In Argentina, we don't think that one country has to base its relationship with another country on a relationship which that country has with a third nation . . ."

British boycott moves reveal anti-Israel bias

By Alan Dershowitz
Published on June 14, 2007

The British Union cares less about journalists or freedom of the press than it does about blindly condemning the Jewish state...it has everything to do with anti-Israel bigotry.

Venezuela’s Jews prosper but keep wary eye on future with Hugo Chavez

By Hal Weitzman
Published on March 29, 2007

The floor of the small synagogue in the center of Coro, the oldest Jewish house of prayer in Venezuela, is covered in a thick layer of sand intended to recall the Children of Israel's time in the Sinai Desert. It is also, however, a symbol of the transience of Jewish settlement in South America.

How South America’s Left Turn Impacts Its Jews

By Joe Goldman
Published on July 27, 2006

South American Jewish communities are surveying their surroundings anew after elections across the continent in recent years have been dominated by left-wing or center-left parties.