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Name Enio A Pea Email ge65yahoo. Location Valencia Venezuela 2001 Date Saturday December 15, 2007 200148 GMT Comments Hi Randy, good afternoon. AM PT Carolina just issued a statement, saying. The family and I appreciate your kindness. Our only hope is that the tragic assassination of our. Half of Venezuelas Jewish Community Fled Under Chvez. Will the Other Half Follow Tablet Magazine. Holocaust survivor and long time Caracas resident Hillo Ostfeld reviews his September 1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, and other local Jewish leaders to discuss anti Semitism. All photos Matthew Fishbane. Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez, who ruled the country since 1. Last year, Tablets senior editor Matthew Fishbane reported on the state of Venezuelan Jewry under his rule. During a recent trip to Bogot, Colombia, where Id lived for years, I discovered that the wealthier parts of the city were filling up with an odd sort of super refugee. The new arrivals were mainly rich Venezuelans fleeing an increasingly chaotic situation in their home country oil execs booted out by nationalization, industrialists frustrated by the corrupt and now hostile business environment, successful entrepreneurs and others displaced by a newly minted Russian style oligarchy loyal to Venezuelas president, Hugo Chvez. These transplants, many of them Jews, were arriving in the Colombian capital and prospering because they had tremendous skills and valuable international connectionsand because they were coming with their social and business ties intact. Optimal A1 Intensivtrainer Pdf more. Their first complaint was invariably about what they called the security situation in Caracas. Caracas Venezuela Zip' title='Caracas Venezuela Zip' />That they found Bogot to be an island of safety and peace by comparison was alarming. Through some of these new Colombians, I was introduced to a man named Alan Vainrub. In 2. 00. 5, Vainrubs parents sat him down in their spacious apartment in Caracas, on the lush lower slopes of vila mountain, to talk about his future. Vainrub, then 2. 3, held an engineering degree from the local Universidad Metropolitana and was happily employed at Procter Gamble. He had designs on an overseas MBA, after hed gained more work experience. But Vainrubs father, a doctor, told him that the domestic political situation was getting worse under Chvez by the following year, Vainrubs father said, there might be hundreds of upper class Venezuelans applying for business degrees, all looking for a way out. Vainrub was in no hurry to leave. After all, he was the comfortable heir to one of the great flowerings of the Jewish postwar diaspora, third and fourth generation Venezuelans with education, social clout, and roots. Jews had first arrived in Venezuela from Curaao, a haven from the Inquisition, in the 1. Turcosthe catch all term for anyone of roughly Middle Eastern coloring or north African descent, regardless of their religionhad been arriving in the country since the 1. And a long tradition of lenient immigration policiesespecially after World War II, based in part on the need for expertise and manpower to exploit the countrys single most important resource, oilmeant that Europeans, Iberians, Chinese, Russians, and other Latin Americans were all welcome there. Venezuelans came in all colors and had intermarried for centuries, fashioning a fully mestizo culture brewed from the descendants of indigenous people, Spanish colonials, African slaves, and 2. Jews were a tiny, accepted minority. People called each other affectionately demeaning nicknames, instead of epithets mi vieja, mi gorda, mi negra. But by the time Vainrubs father sat him down, the Jewish community of Caracas, which once numbered in the tens of thousands, was in precipitous decline. The major cause of this decline was the 1. Chveznow the longest serving head of state in the Western hemisphere. After surviving an ouster by coup in 2. Chvez, who declared his recent battle against cancer won, now openly projects his rule into the middle of the 2. He has proclaimed the next 1. Bronze Age of the Bolivarian Revolution, a hybrid of populism and socialism soldered onto a Napoleonic personality cult. The Bronze Age is to be followed by an intermediary Silver Age, and then concluded, beginning in 2. Golden Age of the Bolivarian Revolution. Over the years, as Chvezs brash populism has been buoyed by income from Venezuelas vast, nationalized oil reserves, an object of his political manipulation has become the Caracas eliteestos ricachones, roughly translated those fat cats, as he has dismissively referred to the upper class. In 2. 00. 4, Chvez made his first official visit to Tehran and struck up a personal friendship and diplomatic alliance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, whom he welcomed to Venezuela this month. This came after decades of political tutelage from another Holocaust denier, the Argentine ultra nationalist Norberto Ceresole, who died in 2. Jews in his pupil. Chvez has seemed to find in anti Zionism, and later anti Semitism, a valuable political tool, one that enhances, or makes more precise, his love of straw man rhetoric and open hostility toward the United States, first against the bellicosity of George W. Bush and then against President Barack Obama, who remains an avatar of imperialismo yanqui, which has abetted las oligarquias in Latin America. And so in 2. 00. 6, Alan Vainrub entered Harvard Business School, hoping to return to Venezuela after graduation and rejoin the Jewish community of Caracas. But the intervening five years have made that dream seem foolish, if not suicidal. As the reality of Chvezs durability has set in, nearly half of Venezuelas Jewish community has fled from the social and economic chaos that the president has unleashed and from the uncomfortable feeling that they were being specifically targeted by the regime. In this significant migration I saw the seeds of a story of dispossession and loss unlike any other in the hemisphere, a tale spanning five generationsfrom Europe to Israel to the Americas and back. What I found was at stake for people like Vainrub, his sister, his parents, his Caracas born grandmother, and her German born Jewish parents, was the very idea of a Venezuelan Jewa patriotic, Latin inflected, Holocaust surviving, entrepreneurial, cosmopolitan, privileged, devout, convivial, passionate, Merengue dancing, carefree, and idiosyncratic species. How dangerous must a situation get for a Jew to cast off the identity he had constructed for himself and his family as a person rooted in a particular place I asked this question of everyone I met What is your limitWhen do you leave On the one hand, there was the Jewish leader who made religion his measure. I wont stop being Jewish, he told me. If by staying I cant be Jewish, then Im not staying. But many more seemed to have the tolerance of community association President Salomn Cohen Botbol. Just three weeks before I met him, Botbols oldest son, who had graduated from high school, had been kidnappedallegedly by ransom seeking delinquents. Understanding the situation of what they call secuestro express, Botbol said, meant he knew that the assault would be no more than a few unpleasant and costly hoursthe scariest of my life, he said, but nothing out of the ordinary. An arrangement was madeBotbol declined to offer the detailsand the family resumed its life. In this case it wasnt traumatic, he said. But there are traumatic cases. Wasnt finding your son in mortal danger reason enough to abandon a sinking ship Im not thinking of leaving, he answered.