Hugo Chavez Reelection Worries Jewish Leaders

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Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez won re-election, defeating Henrique Capriles Radonsky, the grandson of Holocaust survivors

Chavez took 54.42 percent of the votes to Radonsky�s 45 percent in the Oct. 7 poll, his term will end in 2019.

Chavez, a known friend of Iran, become a leading figure in modern Latin American history and will extend his rule over the OPEC member state to two decades.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed its concern over Chavez�s reelection, citing the fact that Venezuela has Shahab 3 long-range missile launching platforms on the country�s Caribbean coast aimed at Florida.

�Hugo Chavez� triumph can only strengthen Iran�s political and military penetration of Latin America,� Dr. Shimon Samuels, director for International Relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told JTA Tuesday.

�Six more years of the Caracas-Tehran axis could be as perilous as an Afghanistan with oil,� added Samuels.

Argentina�s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner used Twitter to congratulate her regional ally: ��Your victory is also ours. Go Hugo,� she tweeted.

Since taking power in 1999, the former solider has become a global �anti-imperialism� fighter, and close ally of leaders from Iran, Cuba, Bolivia and Belarus. Chavez has described Israel�s treatment of the Palestinians as �genocide� and called Zionism racism.

In July 2012 Venezuela was accepted as a full member of the Mercosur regional free trade and political group, and will have increased influence in the bloc which also includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Mercosur�s members all recognize a Palestinian state.

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