Venezuela's Jews under serious threat from Chavez regime

By ICEJ News

09 Mar 2010

The “life and physical integrity” of the Jewish community in Venezuela may be threatened, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report published in February. The report accuses the regime of Hugo Chavez of violating the political and human rights of Venezuelans, which has also created “an atmosphere of intimidation and violence” against Jews in the country. Through the combination of anti-Semitic undertones in media and from public officials, vandalism and raids by Venezuelan police, and no investigations or sanctions on perpetrators, the government is creating an environment of “political intolerance” and “a climate hostile to the free exercis e of dissenting political participation,” the report charged.

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