Aurora Jimenez De Palacios took her seat in 1954 at the age of twenty-eight — the first woman ever elected to the Mexican Congress. She gave women the right to vote and be voted for. She ended child labor. She emancipated women from the limiting roles the church placed on them.
She was a lawyer. She ran a radio station exposing corruption in City Hall. She fought the system of control from inside the system of control — with precision, with fire, with an unshakable conviction that the structures designed to keep people small could be dismantled by someone who refused to look away.
They assassinated her.