President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has replaced his Minister of Urban Agriculture – a position created two weeks ago – as part of renewed efforts to convince Venezuelans to grow their own food, because import shortages are not going away anytime soon. Lorena Freitez will replace Emma Ortega at the head of the urban farming agency, a sociologist who appears not to have any background in agricultural development.
— source breitbart.com
Grassroots Chavistas have taken to social media to express their discontent after the Urban Agriculture Minister, Emma Ortega, inexplicably left her cabinet position just two weeks after being nominated by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
As a member of the Ezequiel Zamora National Campesino Front, firebrand Ortega had also worked for the Aragua state local government since 2013.
— source venezuelanalysis.com
They have a minister for Urban Agriculture. Thats interesting.