14.02.2012                      21.Schwat. 5772

Venezuela:

Chavez opponent faces anti-Semitism

Magazine puts Star of David on image of Henrique Capriles Radonski, who is of Jewish descent.

Henrique Capriles Radonski, who on Sunday handily won the opposition’s ticket in the Venezuelan presidential race, is said to have the best chance of defeating President Hugo Chavez in an election in years when voters go to the ballots on October 7.
But some observers worry supporters of the incumbent might turn the 39-year-old governor of Miranda’s Jewish ancestry into an issue by smearing him with anti-Semitic slurs….