Maduro named Gen. Giuseppe Yoffreda, the former commander of the air force, as president of the Venezuelan Corporation for Foreign Trade (also known as Corpovex) on May 26. Yoffreda will simultaneously control Corpovex and a separate state-controlled imports entity known as Venezuelan Imports and Exports. Together, these firms administer imports of supplies for the private and public sectors. The same day, Maduro named Tomas Andrea Schwab Romaniuk of Venezuela's air force head of state-owned steel firm Sidor, and he appointed retired Gen. Luis Motta Dominguez leader of a regional administrative network. On May 22, Maduro made Gen. Manuel Quevedo, who formerly led the Fifth Regional Command of the Bolivarian National Guard, the administrator of two social programs tasked with constructing houses for low income Venezuelans. Venezuela Baseline Map Military appointments to civilian posts in Venezuela are not new.