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The Mirabal sisters (Spanish: hermanas Mirabal [eɾˈmanas miɾaˈβal]) were four sisters from the Dominican Republic, three of whom (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (el Jefe) and were involved in clandestine activities against his regime.
Mar 8, 2021 · On November 25, 1960, three sisters—Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal—were reported killed in an “automobile accident.” Reports said a car they were riding in plunged over a cliff in the...
Jul 18, 2023 · As part of the resistance, the Mirabal sisters passed out pamphlets detailing the violence of the Trujillo regime, stockpiled guns and bombs, and spoke out against his rule. Eventually, their efforts would land Minerva, María Teresa, and all three of the sisters’ husbands in jail.
Nov 22, 2022 · The Mirabal sisters were women with university careers, married with children, and at the time of their death had ten years of political activism in the Trujillo dictatorship. Two of them, Minerva and María Teresa, had already been in prison several times due to their actions as activists.
Mar 5, 2020 · The Mirabal Sisters are some of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century. Find out why TIME chose The Mirabal Sisters as some of...
Mirabal Sisters. Dominican Republic political activists who in the generation after their deaths were transformed into national martyrs, feminist icons and revolutionary heroes. Name variations: Las Mariposas (The Butterflies). Mirabal de González, Patria (1924–1960).
Jan 13, 2021 · For over 50 years, Dedé Mirabal carried a crushing weight: All three of her sisters were murdered in 1960 by henchmen of Rafael Trujillo, the brutal dictator of the Dominican Republic.
Nov 25, 2022 · They were leaders in the opposition to the dictatorship of US ally Rafael Trujillo. On November 2, 1960, facing an outpouring of public sentiment against his regime, Trujillo publicly stated that he had only two problems left: the Catholic Church and the Mirabal sisters.
The brutal murder of the charismatic Hermanas Mirabal was the most notorious, and the most widely reviled, of the countless crimes committed by the regime of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961.
Feb 15, 1997 · Patricia, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal, sisters who were ordered slain by the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1960, are being honored by a new generation of Domicans; Mirabals...
