1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
World wide immigration going on. Money, taxation and corrupt governemtn as usual.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/coro.html
In 1827, a group of Jews emigrated from the tiny island of Curacao to the nearby mainland port city of Coro, Venezuela. Twenty-eight years later, violent rioting drove the entire Jewish population – 168 individuals – back to Curacao. It was the first time that Jews had been driven out of an independent nation in South America.
The hostility directed at Coro’s Jews was in part economic in nature. Venezuela’s banking system was in chaos, its government corrupt and unemployment rampant. Xenophobia – resentment of foreigners – was running high.
Starting in the 1840s, the municipal government of Coro and the local military garrison asked the Jewish community for loans as advances against their taxes. These were made interest free, and at times were simply “voluntary†contributions as it became clear that the loans would not be repaid. Aizenberg notes, “With the passing of time these payments became not a financial resource which the government could tap in case of urgent need, but a regular source of funds which it came to expect as a matter of course.â€
Venezuela hasn’t changed much.