In mid-October, Camila Ortega participated in the Global Women’s Forum in Beijing, China. In her speech, she argued that Nicaragua is an egalitarian country for women because they hold 57% of elected positions.

“Under the leadership of Commander Daniel Ortega and Comrade Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua has been recognized for our leadership in equality and our participation in politics.”

The Nicaraguan regime celebrates being the country with the most gender parity in Latin America, and to support its claims, it relies on a report from the World Economic Forum.

But what good is being the country with the most gender parity if all elected positions have been imposed by the dictatorial couple?

Nicaragua is so gender-equitable that it created the position of co-president to eliminate hierarchies. Now, we are governed by a woman who was not popularly elected and who has sent her daughter as a spokesperson for Nicaraguan women.

Rosario Murillo exemplifies the gender equality that exists in Nicaragua. Her greatest achievement has been demonstrating that patriarchy and violence can also be perpetrated by a woman.

To maintain power, Nicaragua’s co-president has persecuted and shut down feminist organizations, dismantled laws protecting women, criminalized abortion, and even banished her own daughter, Zoilamérica Narváez, into exile for denouncing Ortega for sexual abuse.

Gender parity in public office is a strategy by Rosario Murillo to garner foreign support. The figures on gender equality in Nicaragua demonstrate a perverse strategy that uses women as pawns or mere numbers for international reports.

“All are equal, but some are more equal than others” was the phrase that immortalized George Orwell, author of Animal Farm.

In this fable, a group of animals expels the humans, giving rise to a new form of tyranny.

In Nicaragua, all women are equal as long as they are useful pieces to sustain the criminal regime that Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega run equally.