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New role:Venezuela's new Minister of Sports Alejandra Benitez Romero

Appointment: Alejandra Benitez was revealed as new President Nicolas Maduro's sports minister at the weekend
On guard! Venezuela's feisty new sports minister is not afraid to flash her flesh to win votes… or stab her politician enemies in the back with her Olympic-standard foil
She's made history in becoming Venezuela's first ever female minister.
But Alejandra Benitez's promise to transform sport in the South American nation is not what's got her countrymen all excited.
Instead, she's the talk of the town after a series of saucy snaps she posed for before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing were re-published online.
The 32-year-old - who fenced for Venezuela during the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics - was revealed as new President Nicolas Maduro's sports minister at the weekend.
On Twitter, she wrote: 'Today starts a new challenge and I will assume that challenge with the same commitment as an athlete who defends his homeland at all costs.'
Already dubbed by Venezuelan media as 'Maduro's sexy minister,' she looks set to be a focal point in the government formed by Hugo Chavez's successor.
The erotic photographs, published by Sunday magazine Dominical some five years ago, see her posing with nothing but her fencing equipment.
She joined other famous Venezuelans in getting naked for a series called: 'The Country Strips Down.'
'Clothes can hide anything,' she is quoted as saying in the magazine. 'But when you are naked, you are yourself.'