The communist president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, appointed Charlotte Schneider Callejas, a man who believes he is a woman, as "Vice Minister" for Women in the Ministry of Equality and Equity.
Schneider, born in Cuba and later naturalized in Colombia, graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana and is a specialist in "Feminist and Gender Studies" from the National University of Colombia.
In the public sphere, he served in 2023 as regional director in Bogotá for the Department for Social Prosperity. Later, he joined the Ministry of Equality, and his promotion to the vice ministry was recently confirmed in an interview he gave during an event organized by the Ministry of Labor.
Charlotte Schneider's arrival at the vice ministry caused strong criticism on social media, where the appointment of a man to represent women is questioned, in a ministry that, moreover, should not exist.
