Jewry protected and financed masonic socialist ‘liberator’ of Venezuela Simón Bolívar
By Mikhail Blokov
Jan. 7, 2026
They saved Simon Bolivar - they gave him money and the best fighters. How the Jews gained independence for Latin America.
Captured during the U.S. operation, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has repeatedly accused "international Zionism" of inciting protests inside the country and sabotage. At the same time, attacking the Jews with arguments that, according to Israeli journalist Hen Mazzig, seemed to "step from the pages of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", Maduro does not like to remember one important historical episode. Namely, that without the help of Jews, Venezuela could spend decades more under Spanish oppression. During the War of Independence, the Sephardic diaspora on the island of Curacao hid the leader of the Venezuelan revolutionaries Simon Bolivar - and later financed his army.
Bolivar fled to Curacao - the island is only 80 km from the coast of Venezuela - in 1812, after the fall of the First Venezuelan Republic. This is the name of the initial stage of the struggle for Venezuela's independence, as a result of which a number of local provinces managed to achieve self-government for a short time. Then the Spaniards regained power - but in 1824 they were finally defeated. Bolivar himself came from a noble family in Caracas. His anti-Spanish views were formed about the help of a mentor and teacher - philosopher Simon Rodriguez. Relatives tried to cool the young man's ardor - and at the age of 17 they sent him to study law in Madrid. It didn't help. After leaving school, he traveled a lot in Europe, lived in the United States for a short time - and returned even more convinced fighter for independence than he left.
"One of the largest Jewish communities in the region lived in Curacao at that time. It numbered about 1.5 thousand people. Unlike many other Jewish residents of the New World, the Jews of Curacao were not "envelopes" - that is, forcibly baptized. They kept their faith, in 1656 they even built the first synagogue on the island," writes historian Edgar Enrique Mendes Lozano. At that time, the island was ruled by the Dutch - it was their loyalty in matters of religion that attracted Jewish immigrants. They were engaged in trade, insurance, made administrative careers. For example, in the middle of the 18th century, the control of tobacco before being sent to Amsterdam was entrusted to Sephardic Daniel Enriquez Cohen.
By the time the fleeing Bolivar appeared on Curacao, the power on the island had changed - it was ruled by the British for some time. But the situation of the Jewish diaspora was not shaken - perhaps due to the fact that it was the Jews at the beginning of the 19th century that gave an armed rebuff to the French, the traditional "competitors" of the British, who had views of Curacao.
Bolivar arrived on the island with two sisters - and found refuge with the local Jewish lawyer Mordechai Ricardo. He gave the revolutionary's family two houses at once. One of them - an octagonal structure with a dome-shaped roof on the seashore, known as "Octagon" or "House with an Umbrella" - has survived to this day. Today it houses the Bolivar Memorial Museum. Ricardo also introduced Bolivar to two Jewish merchant brothers - Richard and Abraham Mezami. They agreed to finance the revolutionary's struggle against the Spanish authorities - and later, according to some reports, they participated in revolutionary "logistics": they helped send ships with rebels to the continent, organized the supply of weapons.
"This friendship was facilitated by a common goal. Like Bolivar, the Jews of Curacao hated the Spaniards. Not without reason they believed that the stronger the influence of Spain in the New World, the less chance they have to preserve their own faith," Edgar Enrique Mendes Lozano wrote.
Bolivar left Curacao in October 1812, having spent about two months on the island. With Jewish money and recommendations from the local community, he went to Cartagena de Indias, today it is Colombia. It was there that he wrote the famous "Cartagena Manifesto" - a program text about the prospects of the struggle for independence of Venezuela. From there, he launched an offensive on Caracas. In August 1813, Bolivar occupied it and was proclaimed by the local municipality "Liberator of Venezuela". Interestingly, he was accompanied in this campaign not only by "Jewish" money, but also by Jewish fighters who followed him from Curacao. At least three Jew military commanders are known in Bolivar's army. These are Colonel David Chaim de Moche Lopez Peña, Captain Benjamin Enriquez and Cavalry Commander Juan de Sola. The latter became the hero of the so-called "Battle of Carabobo" in 1821 - one of the key battles of the Venezuelan War of Independence.
Simon Bolivar died in 1830. And in the Venezuelan city of Coro, there was an influential Jewish community in the Venezuelan city of Coro for a quarter of a century after his death. It was based on the immigrants from Curacao, who once supported Bolivar in his struggle. The community disintegrated only in 1855 - after pogroms by the military garrison. For a long time, he actually existed on the subsidy of the Jewish community. "I received loans that I was not going to give," wrote historian Isidoro Eisenberg. The military were furious when the Jewish council refused to continue to pay for their needs free of charge.
The modern anti-Semitic rhetoric of the Venezuelan government originates in 1999, when left-wing politician Hugo Chavez came to power. By that time, the local community numbered more than 20 thousand Jews. Chavez established close ties with Iran and Syria - and sharply raised the degree of "Jewish" discourse. Back in 2009, he broke off diplomatic relations with Israel - the reason was another escalation in Gaza. During his reign, Venezuela was repeatedly accused of patronizing Palestinian militants - providing asylum, financing and assistance in money laundering. Once again, this information was confirmed already in the era of "covid": as a result of hacker hacking, data about dozens of Hezbollah militants who have been living under the protection of the government in Caracas for years, leaked into the network.
In 2005, Chavez made an attempt to "rewrite" the history of Venezuela. According to him, it turned out that the Jews did not help Bolivar in his struggle, but on the contrary, "kit him out of here" and "crucified him in their own way in Colombia" - a place where Bolivar eventually retired, having lost support. Today, this line is continued by the current President Maduro, who prefers to represent Jews as a hostile force and a "third column". What is strange - Maduro himself claimed in the past that Jewish blood also flows in his veins.
The ancestors of the Venezuelan president, according to him, were Sephardic Jews. And he himself once called the Jewish people "noble", admired their "rich socialist traditions" - and exclaimed: "After all, even Karl Marx was a Jew!"