José Eleazar López Contreras (5 May 1883 – 2 January 1973) was
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.