A year ago in the midst of the U.S.-backed military coup in Bolivia, left-wing mayor Patricia Arce was captured, beaten, had paint thrown on her, her hair chopped off and was paraded through the streets by right-wing thugs who wanted to intimidate supporters of Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism.
Yesterday, she was elected Senator.
I remember seeing the pictures of this back when it happened. I cried, she didn't. These two contrasted pictures have made me feel better than literally anything I can remember.