In Nicaragua, the police the most feminist in the world

Au Nicaragua, la police la plus féministe au monde

At a ceremony to mark the 44th anniversary of the Nicaraguan National Police, President Daniel Ortega stressed the importance of sexual parity in Nicaraguan institutions, and in particular in the police, where there are all-female police stations to combat sexual and gender-based violence. According to the World Economic Forum, Nicaragua is the 7th most gender-equal country in the world, and 1st in the Americas and the Caribbean.

During his speech, Ortega recalled the attitude of the Nicaraguan opposition to this struggle for gender equality. “Today, on this 44th anniversary, the cowards, the sellouts, the machists are crying out because we respect a principle that is not new to Nicaragua, namely parity in governing bodies, in institutions, in the National Assembly, in the municipalities, we said 50% men, 50% women,” he stressed.

The Nicaraguan president insisted that “we must now take this measure which was lacking in the governing bodies, in the police headquarters, at departmental level, in all the country’s departments. This means that where there were only men, there is now a woman with the corresponding rank of commissioner general, a co-leadership for the defense of peace”.

Comandante Ortega appreciated the fact that these women come from different regions of the country, “with a very long commitment to the people, to serving the people, and today we can say that we are making a leap, a leap at world level; I don’t think there is another country in the world where the police have established this type of leadership in the police and in all the important positions are co-directed by a man and a woman”.

President Daniel Ortega also said that when he spoke with the women, “when I gave them their rank, they are all fighters, they stood up to terrorism in April 2018, without hesitation, and they stood firm with selfless work and, logically, they have children and they have to make the sacrifice of seeing their children when they have time to go home. And they are proud, they feel proud. This is an historic event, and why is it an historic event? The putschists, the sell-outs, cried out against the appointment of women to ministerial leadership positions. Well, these putschists will suffer even more when these female police comrades, if these people persist in their acts of terrorism, are caught and grabbed by the hair by policewomen, right where they are trying to spread terror.”