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Patria Jiménez – Mexico
Mexico’s first openly homosexual member of Congress, Patria Jiménez Flores was elected in 1998 at the age of forty-one. The ninth of ten children in a conservative Catholic family, Jiménez overcame her own family’s prejudices to confront...
Digna Ochoa – Mexico
One of the foremost human rights attorneys in Mexico, Digna Ochoa is also a nun. As defense attorney at PRODH (Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, known as Centro Pro, or "the Pro"), Ochoa has taken on some of Mexico’s...