Eleazar López Contreras

José Eleazar López Contreras (5 May 1883 – 2 January 1973) was the president of Venezuela between 1935 and 1941. He was an army general and one of Juan Vicente Gómez's collaborators, serving as his War Minister from 1931.

In 1939, Contreras accepted on behalf of Venezuela the ships ''Koenigstein'' and ''Caribia'' which had fled with Jews from Germany. Provided by Wikipedia