I want to respond as well and to go back to a previous point. You mentioned that there are those in the community who said things are progressing, things are going in the right direction. This is the message that I received from the community leadership: speak up and continue to speak up, because there are things that you can say that we cannot.
I'm happy to say that on the record, that this has been requested.
As far as Chávez's motives are concerned, his relationship with Iran, and his quoting, verbatim, vandalism written on the synagogue walls--these are things that a government or a leader who is concerned about a minority community and a perception that the minority community has about its own place in that country would naturally distance himself from, not embrace.