Maria Fernanda Pineda Calero is only 16, but she already wants to tear down her country's 'machismo culture.' "Women never stop being minors because men always control us," Maria Fernanda Pineda Calero tells me from her home in Condega, Nicaragua. "They never let us live our lives." Her words jolt me. I have to remind myself that I'm speaking to a minor: A 16-year-old who enjoys playing soccer, loves to dance, and is happiest when reading books by Mexican feminist writer Marcela Lagarde. She is also coming of age in a country witnessing a frightening and accelerated withdrawal of