Thursday, January 31, 2008

A pogrom in Venezuela?


By Mona Charen

On Dec.1, two dozen heavily armed police raided a Jewish community center in Caracas where hundreds were celebrating a wedding. The police, the Venezuelan equivalent of the FBI, claimed to be seeking weapons and evidence of "subversive activity." This bit of harassment theater was only the latest in a series of worrying moves by the Chavez government against its Jewish citizens.

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