CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is heaping praise on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the Venezuelan better known as Carlos the Jackal and implicated in hijackings and terror attacks across Europe in the 1970s and ’80s, describing him in a speech here Friday night as a “revolutionary fighter.” Mr. Chávez, speaking to an applauding gathering of leftist political parties from around the world, said he knew he was risking scorn by defending Mr. Ramírez, who is 60 years old and serving a life sentence in France for the murder of two French police agents and a Lebanese informer in Paris’s Latin Quarter in 1975. “I defend him. I don’t care what they say tomorrow in Europe,” Mr. Chávez said. Mr. Chávez, 55, who exchanged elaborately written correspondence with Mr. Ramírez early in his presidency, taps a small but persistent well of support in Venezuela for Mr. Ramírez, born here in 1949 to Altagracia Ramírez, a wealthy Marxist lawyer who named his other two sons Vladimir and Lenin. One Caracas group, the Committee for the Repatriation of Ilich Ramírez, wants Mr. Ramírez transferred from France to Venezuela. Vea, a pro-Chávez newspaper accused of fostering anti-Semitism, closely follows Mr. Ramírez’s life in prison and calls him a “revolutionary compatriot demonized in international Judaism’s media campaigns.” It is not uncommon here for pro-government media to attribute to a Jewish conspiracy episodes like the predicament of Mr. Ramírez, who was seized in a hospital room in Sudan in 1994 by French agents acting on a tip from the C.I.A. and then wrapped in a burlap bag and flown to Paris on an executive jet. Continua…