South American countries other than Argentina for anti-Jewish terrorist attacks

yofie

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I have a question regarding whether the Israeli Embassy bombing in 1992 and the Jewish community centre bombing in 1994 would still have taken place in Buenos Aires, or even at all. If they didn't take place in Argentina, would they have taken place in either Brazil or Chile?

These countries, along with Bolivia, those in the Middle East, and perhaps Spain as well, would have received a larger amount of Nazi war criminals after World War II than they did OTL. This is simply because Argentina would not have been the centre of the ex-Nazi network in South America (due to there being no Peron and his cronies in Argentina to do that because of Argentina being a steadfast Ally during World War II). After all, countries like Brazil and Chile have had large German populations just like Argentina.

I'm thinking Brazil as a possibility for such terrorist attacks to take place in, because Brazil has a lot of corruption just like OTL Argentina (though not nearly as much institutional anti-Semitism), and Brazil is next to the Triple Frontier, has a large Arab community, and has had rather close ties with Iran (again, just like OTL Argentina). Chile, as far as I know, hasn't been as corrupt as Brazil or OTL Argentina, but has had some institutional anti-Semitism (though not as bad as in real-life Argentina) and was nearly as sympathetic to Nazi Germany as real-life Argentina, and a branch of the Arab terrorist network based in the Triple Frontier opened up a number of years ago in Iquique (in Chile's north).

If attacks took place in 1992 and 1994 in Brazil, my guess is the Israeli Embassy in Brasilia and a Jewish community centre in Sao Paulo, respectively. If in Chile, there would have been just an attack in 1992 on the Israeli Embassy, due to the relative lack of corruption lessening the likelihood of both a bungled investigation and a prolonged heightened state of insecurity.

How does any of that sound?
 

yofie

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I'm thinking now that Brazil is more likely to have had anti-Jewish terrorist attacks in 1992 and 1994 than Chile. It's not just because compared to Chile, Brazil's more corrupt, is closer to the Triple Frontier region, and has had closer ties with Iran. Another reason is that Brazil has had a much higher crime rate than Chile or even Argentina - a general atmosphere of lawlessness that spawns rampant crime in addition to corruption can lead to easier opportunities for Muslim terrorists to blow up Jewish targets. A high general crime rate, I think, should offset a lack of institutional anti-Semitism of the kind seen in OTL Argentina.
 
For that to work, it's not the number of Nazi refugees you have to beef up. It's the number of Jews. Argentina has a sizeable Jewish minority going back to the 19th century, whereas in Spain it's so negligible you've hard pressed to find someone who knows a Jewish person, let alone have grievances against them.
 

yofie

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For that to work, it's not the number of Nazi refugees you have to beef up. It's the number of Jews. Argentina has a sizeable Jewish minority going back to the 19th century, whereas in Spain it's so negligible you've hard pressed to find someone who knows a Jewish person, let alone have grievances against them.

I wasn't saying that Spain would be a location for blowing up Jewish/Israeli targets. I was thinking specifically Brazil or Chile if not Argentina. Here are the approximate current Jewish population sizes for each of these three countries OTL:

Argentina: 200,000-250,000 (of which the vast majority are in Buenos Aires)
Brazil: 100,000-120,000 (of which just over half are in Sao Paulo)
Chile: 20,000 (of which the vast majority are in Santiago)

Once again, it was a combination of factors - significant Jewish population, institutional anti-Semitism, closeness to the Triple Frontier, relations with Iran, and official corruption (among others) - that led to the 1992 and 1994 attacks in OTL Argentina.
 
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