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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.