Los Angeles, CA - Group Demands Venezuela Envoy Recall over Anti-Semitic Remark

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Alexis Navarro

Los Angeles, CA - A leading anti-Semitism watchdog group wants Venezuela's ambassador to Russia recalled.

The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center says Ambassador Alexis Navarro made anti-Semitic comments.

Navarro was quoted by the daily Moscow News as saying that a failed 2002 coup that briefly ousted President Hugo Chavez involved Israeli Mossad intelligence snipers "who were Venezuelan citizens, but Jews."

The group said in a statement that it wrote a letter to Venezuela's foreign minister saying the comments were racist and incite violence against Jews.

A foreign ministry spokesman reached by phone said there was no immediate government response.