In place of Ortega in the Ministry of Environment, learned that Claudia Salerno, general manager of Management and International Cooperation of that office, would serve.

FYI..........Here is some Claudia from the Copenhagen summit last month:

The representative of Venezuela, Claudia Salerno, showed with impressive energy her right hand bleeding from strongly slamming on the table to claim her right to take the floor.

Claudia Salerno, director of the Venezuelan Environment Ministrys Office of International Cooperation, explained that the 30 industrialized countries have the potential to 'change the destiny of the world, but today they are telling us that it is too expensive and they are unwilling to let the GDP of their economies be impacted by the response measures to climate change.' 'That is unacceptable, I not only point out to them, but I accuse them not only are they going to be responsible for climate change but they will be responsible for the future of this planet,' said the official. She said that developed nations 'will have to be judged by the world for what they are doing at the moment...we are not going to let them get away with it.' (Talking about the 30 industrialized nations)..........

A group of Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Cuba, and Venezuela, were angry at the “undemocratic” process by which the document was passed. In fact, Claudia Salerno, a Venezuelan delegate, asked the plenary president whether “under the eye of the UN secretary general” he was “going to endorse this coup d’etat against the authority of the United Nations.”

She sounds pretty much like Ortega / Hugo does, nespa? HB, what a bummer, hopefully its all temporary.........

sorry about ULines, stuck