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enezuela's ailing strongman Hugo Chavez unleashed a crude anti-Semitic attack on a rising opposition figure, Henrique Capriles Radonski, the New York Sun reported Thursday. Capriles is a Catholic whose maternal grandparents were Jews from Poland. That makes him a Jew, by Jewish standards. He is emerging as a challenger to succeed Chavez, who suffers from cancer. According to the Sun, a broadcast titled “The Enemy Is Zionism” on the main and official government radio station in Caracas said that Capriles had worked for private firms “linked to the interests of the Zionist bourgeoisie.” It called him part of a “fascist...

Sometimes it is hard to tell who Cuba and Venezuela favor in the U.S. election. The daughter of Cuban dictator Raúl Castro has already endorsed President Obama and on Sunday Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez did so for the second time in less than four months. "I hope this doesn't harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I'd vote for Obama," Mr. Chávez said on state television. That may seem like support for the U.S. incumbent president. But is it? With the Venezuelan economy in the tank, inflation roaring, crime soaring and the Chávez government notorious for corruption,...

Arab racism: Dictator Chavez, backed by Lebanese Arabs living in Venezuela - his political foe Radonski target for anti Semitism